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maculatus Hald., which emerged from beech branches gathered 

 in August, 1894. The species operates in branches of an inch 

 to an inch and one-half in diameter, making a clumsy cut very 

 different from that of ElapJiidion, but which weakens the branch, 

 so that it falls after a severe wind, the curious part of it, being 

 that several specimens may come from a single limb, while only 

 one makes a breaking cut on the branch; whether any remain in 

 the stump left on the tree I have not yet determined; the species 

 in its mode of operations is midway between Elaphidion, which 

 makes a clean cut and fails, and Goes, which makes no cut at all 

 and remains. 



Hickory twigs yielded a fine pair of Purpuricenus humeralis 

 var. axillaris Hald. I am inclined to think it a common species, 

 but comparatively seldom seen as it prefers the tops of trees. A 

 pair of Ichnea laticornis Say also appeared for the first" time in 

 my hatching-box. I later took a third specimen on the branch 

 of a fresh ly fallen red oak (Winter of 1894). 



Leptostyhis macula Say occurred plentifully on dead poison 

 dog wood (Rhus glabra). 



About a dozen or fifteen of a species, called for the present 

 Acanthocinus obsoletus Oliv. , occurred on freshly-cut white and 

 Scotch pine logs, about the same number of specimens were 

 taken in 1894 under similar circumstances; it seems very short 

 lived, only appearing for a few days about June i5th. Two 

 Chrysobothris azurea Lee. were taken from alder on June 8th; 

 on the 23d I captured a third on recently-cut twigs of red oak; 

 about a week later I saw a fourth in the same place, but failed to 

 take it; I find it the liveliest of our Buprestidee, and withal one 

 of the rarest, and its beauty always makes the loss of a specimen 

 cause for regret. 



Dying black alder bushes yielded both sexes of Dicerca pu- 

 gionata Germ, and Acoptus suturalis Lee. ; two specimens of 

 Hormiscus saltatcr Lee. were picked off a hickory twig, one in 

 June, the other in August. The Summer drought made the 

 early September water beetle collecting uncommonly good, 

 specimens being concentrated in the few places not dried up, 

 mere numbers were excessive; from the mass I got quite an 

 amount of picked material. The Autumn collecting on fungi 

 was excellent, and I took many small Silphidae and Nitidulidae, 

 among them many good things which I have not had an oppor- 



