iHi; THE CANADlAif ENTOMOLOGIST. 



and Messrs. Herbert Osborii and B. Pickman Mann. On motion the 

 Club then adjourned, to meet again under the rules at the next meetmgof 



the A. A. A. S. 



(The above has been compiled chiefly Irom the excellent report of the 



Secretary, Mr. John B. Smith.— Ed. C. E.) 



COLEOPTERA IN SEPTEMBER ON BRIGANTINE BEACH, 

 N. J., ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. 



EV JOHN HAMILTON, ALLEGHENY, PA. 



Coleopterists accustomed to collect on the sea shore may find Httle 

 that is new to them in this article ; but to those from the interior, making 

 only occasional short visits, it may be useful in directing attention to some 

 of the less common insects, and to some not likely to be found by one 

 unacquainted with their habits. Brigantine Beach is somewhat insular, 

 being six or seven miles off from the main land, yet none of the Coleoptera 

 mentioned are peculiar to it, and, being mostly maritime species, probably 

 occur in suitable situations all along the coast from New York southward 



indefinitely. . 



This beach is nothing more than a succession of sandhills elevated 

 from five to ten feet above the line of high tide, two or three hundred 

 yards wide, fronting on the ocean and extending from inlet to inlet about 

 six miles Some of these hills are thinly overgrown widi coarse grasses ; 

 and others with thickets of Myrica cerifcra (Bay berry), interspersed 

 with Rosa lucida and clumps of Baccharis halimifolia, so conspicuous m 

 this month bv its abundant, very long and white pappus. Back of these 

 hills to the Bay are the salt meadows, from five to seven hundred yards m 

 width ; they are overflowed by the high tides in spring and autumn, 

 thoucrh several inches above the ordinary ones of winter and summer ; 

 they ''are always dan^p, and support a growth of coarse grass, sedge, etc. 

 \t first sight this does not appear to be a very promising field for the 

 Coleopter!st, and yet the catalogue contains nearly three hundred species. 



Panagceus crucigerus Say annually rewards the careful searcher with a 

 few specimens, occurring mostly on the little circular elevations on the 

 meadows under pieces of wood and the debris left by the high tides. 



Philhydrus reflexipennis Zimm. is found in the shallow fresh water 

 pools that are formed at the base of the sandhills, together with Hydro- 



