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he was, would have regarded its approach with equanimity. The Natural 

 History Society has lost in Prof. Sanborn its most important and valued 

 helper. His presence will long be sadly missed by visitors to the museum, 

 and his successor, whoever he may be, will not surpass the genial and 

 helpful custodian, who, in his own quiet and unostentatious way, has done 

 such solid and lasting service for the cause of popular science." 



A careful and painstaking student, he contributed to science services 

 of which others reaped the benefits. Dr. Harris' work, " Insects Injurious 

 to Vegetation," owes much of its value to the patient labors of Professor 

 Sanborn. 



He was corresponding member of several entomological societies in 

 the States, and Life Member of the Boston Society of Natural History. 



T. A. D., 



Worcester, Mass. 



ON VALGUS CANALICULATUS AND SQUAMIGER : 

 ELLESCHUS BIPUNCTATUS, XYLORYCTES 



SATYRUS. 



BY JOHN HA.MILTON, M. D., ALLEGHENY, PA. 



Valgus canaliailatus Fab. and V. squaniiger Beauv., have, so far as I 

 am aware, escaped the notice of American writers on Coleeptera, except 

 that it is mentioned in the U. S. Agricultural Report for 1868, p. 90, that 

 V. sqjiainiger was found in great numbers in January, in Maryland, under 

 the bark and in the rotten wood of a pine stump ; and that Fitch gave 

 some account of it, under the name seticoiiis, in his report for 1857, p. 

 695, which I have not seen.* 



* Fitch's description is as follows : — 



" Bristly-necked Valgus, Valgus seticoiiis Beauv. — Beneath the bark around 

 the crown of the roots of ant-eaten pine stumps, feeding upon the wood, fleshy, white, 

 thick cylindrical grubs, resembling small larvae of the May beetle, having three pairs of 

 legs anteriorly and the body curved into an arch, its hind part being bent more or less 

 inward under the breast, divided by impressed transverse sutures into twelve rings ; the 

 pupae and perfect insects also occurring in the same situations ; the latter short thick 

 beetles about 0.28 long, the males chestnut brown, beneath black, the females dull black, 

 both sexes with chestnut colored feet, and covered more or less with little ash gray 

 scales, flattened upon their backs, their wing covers much shorter than the abdomen and 



