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Bahamas. A number of the Staphylinid, Cafiiis bisiriatus, Er., were taken 

 under sea-weed, in just such situations as they frequent along our southern 

 Atlantic coast. On the bushes were found an Olibrus^ a number of the 

 widely-distributed Coccinella sangiihiea, a little Scynmus, a curious 

 Lathridiid which probably belongs to the genus Moncediis, and a number 

 of specimens of a very small Corticaria. A species of Monocrepidius 

 was found occasionally, which looks like our M. lividus. A Heniiptychus 

 obtained here agrees with Dr. Leconte's description of H. simiiis, which 

 occurs in Florida, while another species of the same genus, together with 

 Catorama and a Petalium, occurred occasionally. The Cerambycidae 

 were represented by Eburia stigma, Oliv. [duvaiii, Chevr.), an Elaphidion 

 of small size and two species belonging to genera not yet identified. The 

 Chrysomelidse furnished species of Cryptocephalus and Pachybrachys, the 

 former being represented most commonly by what seems to be C. mar- 

 ginicoUis or a closely-allied form. Weevils were tolerably plentiful, 

 especially an Artipus, which was everywhere in evidence ; more rare were 

 species of Pachnceus and Cofiotrachehis. Lembodes solitarius, Boh., a 

 very curious weevil, found also in Florida, was beaten from herbage on 

 the hill ; it looks very little like a weevil, the posterior end being 

 truncate and emarginate, while the pronotum is long, flattened, and 

 extends quite over the head when the beetle is at rest. The prosternum 

 is deeply excavated for the reception of the rather heavy beak, but the 

 large legs seem not to be closely approximated to the body when the 

 insect feigns death, but rather simply folded. The upper surface of the 

 body is roughly sculptured and heavily scaled — a fringe of the latter 

 around the anterior prothoracic margin giving that part a very strange 

 appearance. The aspect of the beetle when shaken into a net is, on 

 account of its grayish and brownish hues, irregular shape and sculpture, 

 that of a small piece of dead twig, or a withered bud. 



During the next week the vessel was cruising on the banks, and no 

 land was touched. All this time, of course, nothing could be done in the 

 line of Entomological work beyond keeping a lookout for such insects as 

 might fiy or be blown on the vessel. On the morning of May i8th, while 

 lying some fifteen miles off Riding Rock, and after a heavy squall from 

 that direction the night before, three moths were taken on the deck of 

 the schooner, and also a specimen of Cicindela tortuosa. This was the 

 first tiger-beetle our party saw in the Bahamas, though they were found 

 in small numbers later on. 



