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of chips and pieces of wood, to which it often clings in considerable 

 numbers, and where also will be found Mantura Floridana. 



Aphodius phalerioides Horn is rare, for during eight years only three 

 specimens were found, and the circumstances of their occurrence were 

 not noticed, as they were in the collecting bottle with the superabundant 

 Phaleria tesfacea, from which they can only be separated by careful 

 examination. 



Ataenius. An undescribed species is found on the meadows under 

 moist decaying debris. This species is about the size of stercorator, and 

 one of the finest of the genus. It may be known by its fine, narrow 

 elytral stride, with small, close tranverse punctures; broad, flattish intervals, 

 and deep piceous black color. 



Trox scabrosus Beauv. is rare, being met with in dry sand under desic- 

 cated human excrement, or under boards in its vicinity ; and here it may 

 be remarked that no Coleopterous insect in any stage seems, on this 

 island, to inhabit the ejectamenta of herbivorous animals. T. asper and 

 T. suberosus may be found sparingly about the remains of dead animals, 

 but such are rare. 



Ligyrus gibbosus DeGeer comes at night to light in vast numbers. 

 In the office of the hotel in less than one hour, one evening, over a hundred 

 specimens were taken. It seems to be distributed in the United States 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 



Euphoria areata Fab. is likewise a widely distributed species in the 

 warmer arenaceous districts, but not recorded as occurring west of Texas. 

 What its habits are in other places and at other times is unknown to me, 

 but my experience with it is this: Sept. 9th, 1877, about ten o'clock in 

 the forenoon, five specimens were taken flying about a small sand hill 

 crowned with wild rose bushes ; next day about 100 were taken from ten 

 to twelve, and the succeeding day five or six at the same hours, but none 

 on any subsequent day. The next year I reached there on the 15th, but 

 saw none that season. The third year I came on the 5th, but none 

 appeared till the loth, when about thirty were taken, and on the next 

 twenty, but none thereafter. From that year till the present I was never 

 there previous to the 12th of September, and no specimens occurred. 

 The present year I came on the 9th, and took two specimens at the usual 

 hour on the nth, but none thereafter. Back of this sand hill, in 1877, 

 was about half an acre of cultivated ground, which was abandoned three 

 years ago. I infer from all this that the insects I met with were bred in 



