394 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, 



not only in scraping together material that time is saved, but 

 also in the facilities offered for examining the catch. When 

 sufficient material is in the net, pick out the large specimens, 

 raise the net up and tip it half over, so that the sun will shine 

 in, and, if possible, the wind will blow through it. The water 

 will immediately drain off, and the small beetles will hasten to 

 leave the drying debris and hurry to the edge of the net, 

 where they pass under the eye of the collector, who easily 

 picks out any he desires, and the rest walk out over the edge. 

 Persons who have never used a wire net have no conception of 

 the time saved and the amount of waste and material which 

 can be passed upon by its use, and a net once made will last 

 a long time and stand a deal of rough work. Some minute 

 species pass through the meshes and are easily picked off 

 outside. 



One species of Liodes and about thirty of Staphylinidae were 

 turned up, while the Cocinellidae were well represented, and a 

 few 7 interesting varieties occurred. The Eiidomychidae gave 

 six species, among them PJtymaphora pnlchcUa New. My first 

 specimen of Georyssus pusillus L,ec. was picked up on the river 

 bank. A few good species of Nitidulidae and Histeridse oc- 

 curred, among them one of Saprinus fitchii Mars, on sand 011 

 the river bank. I suspect this species of living on the sand 

 or under debris on the water's edge, but the closest search 

 failed to turn up a second specimen. In past years I have 

 taken great numbers of ^S". estriatus L,ec. on sand under debris 

 on the beaches of Great Salt Lake, Utah. The Buprestidse 

 showed in seven or eight species, among them two examples 

 of Pvccilonota thnrcitra Say on poplar ; it is probably common 

 earlier in the season. About eight or nine species of Elater 

 were taken, among them a pair of Cryptohvpnus pectoral is Say 

 in sand on the edge of a brook. Scarabs and L,onghorns were 

 sadly wanting, and the few that presented themselves were 

 common. The Chrysomelidse were fairly represented in num- 

 ber of species, but not specimens. Tenebrionidae were con- 

 spicuous by their absence, while the Rhyncophora showed up 

 a fine number of species and some few good things, notably 

 a pair of Splenophorus found at the roots of water plants in a 

 dried-up bog-hole. 



