March, '02] K_\TOMOI.<><;ICAL NKVVS. 83 



Notes on Certain Coleoptera. 

 By L. E. HOOD. 



At the request of an entomological friend, and armed with a 

 sketch map of the Harvard College grounds giving the localities 

 of certain trees that, in the years ago, were sadly infested with 

 C/irvso/i/c/a sett/tin's Lee. in all its stages, I made repeated visits 

 to Cambridge this season, hoping to secure living larv;e and 

 images for scientific study. 



I searched carefully both on the college grounds and in the 

 vicinity without success. Not a single specimen was to l>e 

 seen, and seeing the futility of further search in this locality, I 

 next went to the Old Roxbury Cemetary in Koxbury, Ma^-., 

 where I have seen both the larva' and imagos of this Chrvso- 

 melid so numerous that they were absolutely a nuisance. Here 

 I only secured a single adult, no signs of larva- being visible. 



Other localities in Medford, Maiden and Braintree, were 

 visited without success. 



I only know of a single larva, that a local collector found in 

 Roxbury, having been seen this season in this neighborhood, 

 and I can only understand this remarkable scarcity of a species 

 usually so common, but as being the result of our cold wet 

 spring. 



All species of Coleoptera, with a few exceptions, have been 

 scarce this year, and in general the season is a failure as far as 

 collecting goes. 



Among other leaf-feeding beetles the same scarcity was ob- 

 servable, the only locality where I have met with any real 

 success in beating was in a swampy field near Braintree, Mass., 

 where I collected the first week in July. 



In Mordellidee only two species were at all common, and 

 these not in the same proportion as in recent years 



All species of khynchophora were rare, only half a do/en 

 species having been collected during the year, one of these, 

 rymyder fasdata Oliv., I find high up on trees among fungus. 



In Cerambycidire I have secured but fev 

 the spring catch of Carabida- was a total failure. 



The only species of (*inci>itt,-/<i at all common \ 



