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In the meadows I found a few s-^&cimtnsoi Epicauta punctic&llis, but 

 that was all I saw of the Meloidse. We could hardly expect to find many 

 of them so far north however. 



Having a love for Rhyncophora I took pains to get as large a series 

 as possible, and was rewarded by finding quite a number of species. 

 Rhynchites bicolor lives on roses there, as I believe it does everywhere in 

 North America, in fact I doubt if there is a spot on this continent where 

 roses grow, that Rhynchites bicolor does not inhabit too. Besides A. 

 nigra and A. .decorata previously mentioned, other species of Otiorhy- 

 nchids may be found, and of these Amnesia granicollis and Sciopithes 

 obscurus are the most plentiful. The former is found in moss or around 

 the roots of grass under logs, while the latter lives on various bushes, 

 preferring blackberry, I think. In company with the Amnesia may be 

 found large numbers of a species of Sitones, which may some day require 

 the attention of the economist. The injury done to the roots of grass by 

 this little beetle must, I think, be considerable. 



I took one Plitithodes taeniatus from a rotten log, and two or three 

 Trichalophus didymus on low ground among a lot of willows. Apion 

 has already been spoken of, Lepyrus is common on willow with Dorytomus 

 brevicollis^ D. matmerheimii, Magdalis salicis and Orchestes niger. 



Sweeping in a field yielded a fine specimen of Trachodes quadrituber- 

 culatus, one of Phytonotnus setigerzis and two or three of a new Atithon- 

 omus. Ceutorhyiichus furnished two or three species, Pelenomus one, 

 and Phytobius one, probably P. velaUis Beck, a very interesting species 

 of wide distribution, occurring in Michigan and Illinois as well as in 

 Europe. I found no signs of Centrini and no Sphenophorus. The Scoly- 

 tid^e taken were all of two species — Scolytus unispinosus and Hylesinus 

 aspericollis. 



There seems to be a preference among water-beetles for small bodies 

 of water, and often after sifting the waters at the edge of a lake or stream 

 with little or no success, I have thoroughly cleaned out a little spring or 

 puddle and found it swarming with them. This experience, repeated so 

 often before, was gone through again at Victoria and I made quite a col. 

 lection of aquatics in the course of a couple of hours. The species 

 were few in number — not over twenty probably — but there were a good 

 many examples of some of them. The genera Bidessus, Deronectes, 

 Agabus, Dytisais, Helophorus, and Hydrobitis hold the bulk of the 

 species. 



