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voured all the other larvae. (This probably accounts for the 

 eggs being deposited solitarily.) October I2th the cannibal 

 larva, less than two months old, had grown from its abnormal 

 feeding to a length of two inches ; color : head blackish, legs 

 and spiracles yellow-brown, body whitish, with blue-black 

 showing through, under side and last three segments blue- 

 black. 



From August, 1907, three lame from eggs were fed sepa- 

 rately on dead oak leaves and roots, and at four months were 

 only one inch long, so that the two months old two-inch canni- 

 bal specimen was doubtless of abnormal size. It would be in- 

 teresting to rear a larva-fed antaeus grub into pupa or imago 

 and note whether it would become a giant specimen or simply 

 mature more rapidly. 



Stratcgits splendens, Beauv. This rare species occurs here 

 with a season at least two months earlier than antaeus. In 

 June and July I find only dead specimens, and a fresh living 

 beetle was dug from my garden January ist, within a few 

 feet of which I found on the same date an imago which had 

 evidently died just after moulting, as the elytra were abortive. 



Gcotrupes balyi. This species buries not only animal drop- 

 pings, but decadent fruits. I noted it working under spoiled 

 cocoanut and also under refuse watermelon. Dr. L. O. How- 

 ard wrote me that this was a new observation. 



Sandalits niger. I have discovered what was, I believe, 

 hitherto unproved, that the reddish male of Sandalits is a fixed 

 variety of niger. Dr. Howard writes me that Dr. Horn, in his 

 synopsis of the genus, suspected this relationship. He wrote 

 also that my dates are interesting, as in the vicinity of Wash- 

 ington, D. C., where S. niger is rare, the mating season is not 

 later than August. I note as follows : 



"In November, 1904, took two or three living females on 

 dead black-jack oak. In November, 1905, found a few females, 

 and Mr. R. S. Woglum, acting State Entomologist, took one 

 red male, the first found here. In November, 1906, we took 

 twenty females, three black males and two red males. I then 

 suspected that the red males were niger, as we found no red 

 females to correspond. In November, 1907, we took forty 



