1894-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 99 



especially during- twilight, when many tilings were on the wing. 

 Of these the largest game was Ergates spicidatus, often seen fly- 

 ing slowly about the board piles and easily taken. The large 

 burrows in pine stumps bear witness to the larval habits of this 

 species. Under like circumstances were taken Pactopus hornii, 

 Carcbora longula, Lasconotus servus, Ernobius sp., Hylasies 

 nic'cer and H. longus. Our camp fire attracted numerous speci- 

 mens of Anelastes driiryi, and occasionally a Polyphylla crinila; 

 I have never seen this species in the low country, its place there 

 being taken by P. lo-lineata, which is not rare at electric lights. 



Returning to camp one evening about sundown, I stopped to 

 examine a small alder which had been felled across the stream. 

 I had gathered a dozen or two of Pityophthorus pubipennis, 

 which had emerged from their burrows and were taking an even- 

 ing promenade, when, from the hole of one of the bark borers a 

 strange head appeared ; it belonged to that curious Cucujide, 

 Narthecius grandiceps, and diligent search resulted in the finding 

 of about a dozen of this very rare beetle. I know not what may 

 be the habits of this insect, but the circumstances strongly sug- 

 gest that it may be parasitic on the bark borer above mentioned. 

 On this same alder I found t\vo or three Lasconotus linearis, and 

 from a freshly-cut tree close by a little colony of Rhyncholus 

 spretus. Beneath a log partially imbedded in turf by the side 

 of the stream I discovered the headquarters of Hippodamia con- 

 i-<')-o-ens for this region; here, crowded together in places several 

 deep, were not less than ten thousand individuals; what can be 

 the signification of such a gathering? 



Space will not permit a detailed allusion to even half of the 

 species collected, nor is a complete list now possible, owing to 

 the difficulty of identification; many, indeed, being unclescribed. 



That this article may be of some value as indicating geograph- 

 ical distribution, I append as complete a list as possible of the 

 not mentioned above : 



Cicindela i2-guttatu Dcj. ISnnbidium iridescens Lcc. 



Cychrus punrtatus Lee. Tachys anthrax Lcc. 

 Notiophilus semiopacus Esch. audax Lee. 



Dyschirius gibbipennis Lee. Pterostichus ater Dcj. 



Sclii/o^t-niu^ drprrsMis Lee. cast.mipt.^ Men. 



Bembidumi erasum Lcc. <>r< i(lrmnlis Dej. 



longulus Lee. . \mura soitulu Ziiiiin. 



semistriatus Hald. ivmntestriata Dcj. . 



