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Hippodamia smuata, Mills. — Colorado, N. M., June 14th, 1892 ;. 

 one. 



Coccinella oculata, Fab., and var. abdomina/is, Say. — Las Criices, 

 N. M. May 22nd, 1892. Many pnp?e found on black locust at 

 Central Hotel in Placita. On June 13th, 1892, botii the si)ecies and 

 the variety were found on mesquite (P. juliflora) on road between 

 Detroit and Rincon, N. M., and a great many larvw were also seen 

 on the mesquite. 



Mysia Hornii, Cr. — Turkey Tanks, Arizona, July ist; one. 



Chilocorus, sp. ? — Las Cruces, N. M., July i6th, 1891. Found 

 empty larval skins of a coccinellid on trunks of apple trees. They 

 were in patches of as many as twenty in places, usually just beneath 

 where a large limb branched out from the trunk. 



Hyperaspidiiis trimaculatiis, L. — Las Cruces, N. M. 



Epilachna corrupt a, Muls. — Las Cruces, N. M. Very injurious 

 to beans. (See Insect Life, IV., 26.) 



Erotylus Boisduvaiii, Chev. — Grant County, N. M. (VV. J. H.); 

 one. This is a peculiar beetle, wholly black except the elytra, 

 which are pale yellowish-white, with scattered, very small, shot-like 

 black dots and a little black on outer edge in middle of each elytron. 

 Dermestes marmoratus, Say. — Chaves, N. M. Aug. 6th, 1892 ; one, 

 Attagenus Hornii, Jayne. — Las Cruces, N. M.; one beaten from 

 mesquite (P. juliflora), May 12th, 1891. On mesa. 



Trogoderma tarsale, Melsh. — Las Cruces, N. M. Found May 

 9th, in spring mattress of a bed, in some numbers. It was a hair 

 mattress, and the beetles doubtless bred in it. 



Anthrenus varius, F. — Las Cruces, N. M. One beaten from flowers 

 of mesquite (P. juliflora), May loth, 1891. On mesa. 



Hololepta populnea, Lee. — Las Cruces, N. M., Nov. 14th, 1892. 

 Found under bark of cottonwood log, in wet black inner layers of 

 decaying bark, numbers of adulls of this flattened histerid. They 

 were infested with mites. Pupae of this species were found under 

 cottonwood bark, November i6tli and 17th, 1892, in Alameda and 

 Bosque vedado. They were enclosed each in a little cell in the 

 inner layers of bark, the cell opening against the sap-wood. The 

 cell is formed of pieces of the inner bark, and is placed between 

 the inmost layers of bark and the sap-wood, being attached to the 



