Dec., '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 461 



be called a scavenger, as it does not convey its larval food 

 from the surface, but, like ferrugineus and the species of 

 Strategus and Dynastcs, it seeks under-ground debris which 

 is not polluting the air. Indeed, S. antacns buries dead leaves 

 and D. tit\ns revels amid over-ripe and rotting fruit in the 

 orchards. These are more nearly scavengers though not so 

 like in form of wing-case to the Geotrupes. 



Anurogr\lliis initticiis. I mention this cricket because its 

 mound, very common here, so nearly resembles the mound of 

 B. lazanis. The latter is formed of stems, the former of 

 crumbs, but they are alike in size and shape. A. 

 innticus builds near some small weed whose leaves furnish 

 the wide but shallow horizontal chamber, and the shaft 

 where the insect lodges, may extend in any one of the three 

 positions indicated in our illustration. 



On April i6th, in a sandy road we found several mounds 

 almost exactly like those of A. muticus. At the base of 

 the vertical quarter inch shaft from eight to ten inches deep 

 we took in each case one or two specimens of the Carabid 

 beetle, Geopinus incrassatits. 



Since my paper in the June Nws, I obtained a new date 

 record for Strategus antaeus having dug out a female, June 

 15, or five weeks earlier than my previous first record. How- 

 ever, this has been throughout a much earlier season than 

 usual. I am also on the track of 5. splcndcns. I find that it 

 comes out for a promenade just after nightfall, walking slowly 

 over paths where its polish may reflect the lantern rays. Its 

 neighborhoods are rare and far apart, but where one is 

 found are traces of others. It is bradycinctus or slow-mov- 

 ing and thus is seldom found perfect or entire. The voracious 

 ants eagerly disintegrate and mutilate any beetle alive or dead 

 they may master or meet. I took a splcndcns at near noon 

 tumbling about the grass as if blind, but as it was minus one 

 antenna I conjectured that its unusual diurnal wandering was 

 due to its one-sided sense of smell and sound. The brooding 

 haunt of splcndcns is still in part a mystery, but from certain 

 hints from local diggings, I am more than guessing that it does 



