ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ Xov., '(30 



nine under my pillow next morning ! When I examined my 

 bed I found there were "bed bugs" also in it. All I captured 

 were thin and flat, with no blood in them. Did these enter- 

 prising fleas prevent the Acantliia from getting any of my 

 blood? The rain leaked through the roof onto my bed, I 

 moved the bed and placed a tin bucket under the leak, but when 

 I looked next morning to see how much water I had caught, 

 there was none there. The bucket had a hole in the bottom and 

 the water had passed down onto the landlord's bed which 

 was in the room below. This roof was like a good many I 

 have seen in Kentucky, when it rains they can't fix them, and 

 when it clears they don't leak. From here to Clayton was a 

 nice walk of about ten miles, easily made in three hours. 

 Here I found Leng and Davis comfortably fixed at the Hotel 

 Dozier which they had turned into a veritable "Bug House." 

 Two days later Dr. Love, of New York, came and 

 we searched the country for miles around for in- 

 sects. My share of the spoils consisted in about 300 species, 

 240 of which were coleoptera. Very few were new species, 

 being mostly common things, identical with the fauna of 

 south Ohio and Kentucky. Screamer Mountain yielded a 

 huge cistelid, that is perhaps a new genus, and two clerids 

 that may be new. This mountain (Screamer) has a legend 

 that in early times an Indian chief, suspecting his squaw of 

 infidelity, pursued her, to kill her. He wounded her with an 

 arrow, and she ran screaming up the mountain side. Hence the 

 name of this pretty mountain. Leng smoked the pipe of 

 peace on the mountain top, but forgot his pipe and had to 

 go back after it, when we, on our return and had nearly reached 

 the bottom. This was the most laborious and painful episode 



of the trip. 



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W. S. BLATCHLEY, of Indianapolis, Indiana, has almost ready for the 

 press a descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera known to occur in 

 Indiana. It will be along the same lines as his "Orthoptera of Indiana," 

 published in 1903, and will be issued as one of the reports of the Indiana 

 Department of Geology and Natural History. Any person outside of 

 the State having examples of rare or interesting species known to have 

 been taken in Indiana will confer a favor by sending him data regard- 

 ing them. 



