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Mordellistina aspersa Mels. Several specimens taken on flowering 

 plants, such as Spirgea, about the end of July. This beetle is 

 stated by Mr. John B. Smith (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. x.,) to 

 be "the most common of our species." It cannot, however, be 

 very abundant northerly, as it has never apparently been recorded 

 from Canada, nor is it in Lake Superior, Michigan or Buffalo lists. 



Comata Lee. Two or three specimens ; varying in color of head 

 and thorax to the forms picicor;i.is and cervicalis Lee, now in- 

 cluded by Mr. Smith in this species. Recorded from Michigan 

 under the latter names, and Buffalo under the last one. 



pectoralis Lee. Rare. A prettily marked species taken by Leconte 

 on the north shore of Lake Superior (Agassiz Lake Superior Ex- 

 pedition.) Evidently rare, as Mr. Smith, in his remarks on the 

 species, states that he had seen only one specimen and that the 

 type, nor can I find mention of its capture elsewhere. This is one 

 of many instances in which a marked resemblance of the fauna of 

 Ottawa to that of Lake Superior is evident. 



ambusta Lee. Var. Two specimens. Recorded from Michigan, 

 but is more abundant in the Middle and Southern States. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



BY A. W. HANHAM, PARIS, ONT. 



I have to record the capture of some Coleoptera in rather an unusual 

 manner. Last week while out in the woods on one of my collecting 

 tramps, I was attracted to an old stump by the glittering of something in 

 the sun. Closer acquaintance did not at first solve the mystery; the 

 bright object seemed to be buried among some debris. Further examin- 

 ation revealed the dried and withered remains of a small toad, the glitter 

 being that of some Buprestidse partly exposed in what was once the 

 stomach of the defunct batrachian. 



I carried the remains home, and with no little trouble excavated in a 

 perfect state the following : — 



Calosoma frigiduin Lee. 



Platynns placidus Say. Several. 



Dicerca ? A pair. 



A small weevil unknown to me. 



Portions of Cicindela repanda Dej., other Coleoptera and some Diptera. 



