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(3) Johnstown; alt. 600 ft.; Aug. 3i-Sept. 22, 1910. 



(4) Gloversville ; alt. IOGO ft.; Sept. 23, 1910. 



Mr. M. D. Leonard, a most careful student of the family, 

 took two specimens at Ridgewood, Bergen Co., N. J. (Brook, 

 Ridgewood Heights, Sept. 16, 1910), thereby adding an inter- 

 esting species to the New Jersey State list. 



Besides receiving help from a number of students at Cornell, 

 I wish, especially, to thank Dr. J. G. Needham for his very 

 kind assistance throughout the course of this study. 



Two Rare Species of Coleoptera. 



BY HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Sc.D., Philadelphia, Pa. 

 I. DORCUS BRE.VIS SAY. 



It seems of interest at this time to put on record in more 

 concrete form a short history of this interesting beetle. It was 

 described under the name of Lucanus brevis by Thomas Say 

 in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, Volume V, pt. I, p. 202, 1825. No locality was men- 

 tioned other than the United States. The next mention of the 

 species is probably by J. H. B. Bland, Proceedings of the En- 

 tomological Society of Philadelphia, I, 263, 1862. He gives a 

 brief account of the records of the species and a figure. 

 Three specimens are mentioned as having been found within a 

 few miles of each other in the months of July and August. 

 The specimen figured, a male, was taken alive near Wey- 

 mouth, New Jersey. This specimen is in the collection of the 

 American Entomological Society. "Of the other two, one a 

 female, is in the collection of Dr. Leconte [now Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts], the other, 

 a male, is in Mr. Eland's collection, both being more or less im- 

 perfect." The specimen mentioned as being in Mr. Eland's 

 collection passed into the hands of the late Charles Wilt and 

 is now in the collection of the American Entomological So- 

 ciety. Mr. Bland stated that the species had been lost from 

 our fauna since 1831. All the specimens were collected by G. 



