1895-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2jg 



excellent collector for others, as I am glad to testify. And now 

 there was a great upheaval of the old mountain and alpine beetles 

 were in serious danger of extinction. The Coleopterist and his 

 obliging friend left, literally, no stone unturned. The summit 

 looked as if shaken by an earthquake, and the ground was full 

 of holes and pits of irregular shapes, from which heavy stones 

 had been dragged by the brawny arms of these athletic and eager 

 collectors. I have nothing but praise for this pair. If, where 

 Coleoptera were concerned, they seemed grasping and niggardly, 

 I must own that with insects of other orders they were most 

 generous and free-handed, and they shared with me nay, gave 

 me all of the flies, bees, bugs and spiders found incidentally while 

 searching for their precious beetles. One day, while sitting at 

 my window busy over my treasures, I heard a call, and looking 

 out saw the young doctor holding a large stone in his uplifted 

 right hand as if in the act of hurling at my window glass. Look- 

 ing more closely I detected something peculiar on the stone's 

 surface, and ran out with a cyanide bottle. There, resting tor- 

 pidly on the stone, was a perfect, fresh, lovely specimen of Arctia 

 quenselii, the first I had ever seen alive. The same obliging 

 youth added several specimens of the rare I\Ieleoma, of which I 

 have spoken, to my collection; and the Coleopterist brought me 

 some of my choicest Tenthredinidae and Diptera. 



Under stones the same Carabidae, Byrrhidae and Elateridae, so 

 numerous in former seasons, were abundant now. Of Staphvl- 

 inidae, the little Philonthns palliatus, was most plentiful, its bril- 

 liant orange elytra shining brightly in the darkness as we turned 

 over the stones. Cicindela vulgaris flew over the carriage-road, 

 and was found, on cold days, torpid under sticks and stones. I 

 took but one C. longilabris this year, and one C. purpurea, the 

 latter new to my mountain list. In Diptera I captured sevc nil 

 new species and many rare things. One of the most interesting, 

 so says Mr. Coquillett, was a little- black Leptid, the Spania cdcta 

 of Walker. In this order I added some ninety additional species 

 to my list. In Hymenoptera, one of the most common species 

 was Ctyptus extrematis a pretty red and black insect with apex 

 of abdomen white. This I had hitherto taken only in southern 

 Florida. Several of the Scolytidae were abundant, especially 

 Polygraphus rufipennis, which gathered on the windows and 

 walls and filled the air by hundreds. I took in this group, also, 



