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very rarely seen in American collections. Achryson surinamum 

 occurred once, Ebtiria ovicollis often both at light. Elaphidion 

 mcestum inhabits thickets and is to be obtained by beating tangles. 

 A single example of E. irroratnm was taken from a leguminose 

 tree on the high barren ''yucca ridges." Ibidion exclamation is 

 Thorns , was captured once. Piezocera serraticollis was found 

 in the same thickets as Elaphidion mcestum it is a very curious 

 looking creature of a shining chestnut color and with broad 

 flattened antennze which give it a characteristic appearance. Phy- 

 tonpallidum and Euderces reichei were, together, beaten from the 

 vines which seem to overgrow most of the hedges and bushes 

 along the roadsides. Cyllene crhiicornis was tolerably abundant 

 on a certain fence, evidently ovipositing in the liuisache posts. 

 Every time I passed the place I got a few, and sometimes half a 

 dozen might be seen at once. They are wary and rather hard 

 to catch, flying at a slight alarm; Neoclytus luscns and erythro- 

 cephalus each occurred once. A remarkably fine example of 

 Monilema ulkei was found under a fallen yucca trunk high upon 

 the ridges toward the Gulf. It seems to be the second specimen 

 known from the United States and is easily recognized by the 

 pretty pattern of whitish pubescence ornamenting the upper sur- 

 face. Ataxia crypta was rather common, especially in the cotton- 

 fields ; Aporataxia lineata rather rare in the thickets ; Ecyrus 

 fasciatus is another jungle haunter, and by its coloration bears a 

 most deceptive resemblance to a bit of mouldy wood, though 

 Desmiphora mexicana (of which a single specimen was beaten 

 from a vine covered hedge) is even more deceiving by the irregu- 

 lar outline communicated by a covering of hairs in crests and 

 lines of white, gray and brown. Dorcasta cinerea looks like a 

 slender broken twig I found it on cotton chiefly, but once on 

 Soldnum. Oncideres texana breeds freely in huisachc, and on 

 the same plant I got one magnificent specimen of the hitherto 

 unique O. piistulata, described from Laredo. Mecas pergrata 

 and M. inornala were both met with, but rarely. In the wooded 

 river bottom back of Fort Brown two specimens of Amphionycha 

 ainoena and one of A. flammata var. ardens were beaten into my 

 net. Several of the above-mentioned Longhorns have only 

 lately been described in the works of Hamilton and Linell. 



