66 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



though few collectors have been fortunate enough to find it more than 

 once. He who shall make known the manner of its life will have done 

 something for science. 



Ma?itura flo7-ida?ia, Cr. The difference in colour between the speci- 

 mens found here and in Florida is very noticeable ; here it is a rufous 

 brown colour above, with the apical third of the elytra paler, the colour 

 insensibly fading into that of the disk without much contrast. There it 

 is larger, piceous black, apical third pale whitish, with the separation of 

 the colours sharply defined, very much as in Cercyon prcetextatum. The 

 characters are the same, though they look enough unlike to be different 

 species. 



Mesites subcylindricus Horn. I took here a pair of this and would 

 have had difficulty in recognizing with certainty the female had the male 

 not been present. The male described by Dr. Horn was probably above 

 the average size, .26 inch. I have two, measuring .18 and .23 inch.; and 

 a female .22 inch. The male and female differ greatly in the appearance 

 of the beak ; in the female it is longer, strictly cylindrical, highly 

 polished, a little dilated at apex, impunctate except a few coarse punc- 

 tures at base, where there is also an elongate impression and a puncture 

 between the eyes, which are small; the antennae are inserted so close to 

 the eyes as to be sub-contiguous, and the scrobes are obsolete. In the 

 male it is as described by Dr. Horn, in substance, round, flattened above 

 and below, dilated over the insertion of the antenna, a short canal- 

 iculation near base, a puncture between the eyes, and surface apparently 

 longitudinally strigose, with fine shallow punctures; antennae slightly post- 

 median. It seems rare. 



Cnesinus strigicollis Lee. Occurs here occasionally on Osage Orange, 

 which it probably followed from the south. 



A GORDIIDIDE FOUND IN BRASSICA OLERACEA. 



Whether the individual alluded to is a Gordius, or of some allied 

 genus, my limited knowledge of the Annelida does not permit me to 

 determine. In September a German gardener brought to me what he 

 called a " cabbage snake, a dangerous thing full of poison," the bite of 

 which he veraciously assured me he had known in Germany to produce a 

 " felon." He had taken it from the middle of a head of cabbage which he 

 had split open. It was entirely white (the color of the cabbage), as 



