Vol. XXvi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 269 



List of Coleoptcra Collected from Tanglefoot. 



By C. A. FROST, Framingham, Mass. 



The following species of .beetles were taken from bands of 

 tanglefoot on two large white oak trees in Sherborn, Massa- 

 chusetts. These trees are situated in a pasture at the foot of 

 a wooded hill and are partly surrounded by a sparse growth of 

 hardwoods which are replaced on the east by alders that extend 

 to an open meadow a few hundred feet away. 



The results of the first visit on September 27th were so sur- 

 prising that a second trip was made to secure any small speci- 

 mens that had been overlooked. On the shaded side of one 

 of the trees next the swamp most of the specimens were badly 

 moulded and were not removed at all, while a few other speci- 

 mens looked as though they had been pecked by birds. These 

 two trees, which are nearly three feet in diameter, were banded 

 about the first of June so that most of the material must have 

 been entangled for many weeks and some of it for three months. 

 Most of the specimens were dug- out as mere gobs of tangle- 

 foot and dropped into the alcohol bottle where they remained 

 about five hoiirs. They were then found to be very clean ex- 

 cept for a whitish substance on a few of them. The large ones 

 were also relaxed enough to pin while the legs and antennae 

 of the small specimens could be drawn out by the careful use 

 of a fine brush. 



The number of rare species is the most remarkable fact in 

 this list for, in the fourteen years of my collecting in Massa- 

 chusetts, I have never before taken Cinyra gracilipcs, Forna.v 

 calccatus, Catoraina nigritnlum, Dorcatoma dresdensis, Abstru- 

 lia tessellata, Canifa pusilla, Hclodes thoracica or Heterachtcs 

 quadrimaculatus, and but single specimens of Entomophthal- 

 mns rufwlus and Callidinm aercum; L. caz'a, S. punctatus, C. 

 sc.vsignata, C. bicolor, and H. unifasciata have been exceeding- 

 ly rare. 



On my return from the second visit to the trees (October 

 3, 1914), I examined some red oaks that had been banded with 

 tanglefoot in 1911 or 1912 and took therefrom single speci- 

 mens of Bostrychus annigcr Lee. and Notiolophus scmistriatus 



