96 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



" ' At the time of his death he had been for some months a valuable 

 assistant and member of the Boston Society of Natural History, where 

 many of his works remain to speak for themselves. Among his associates 

 there he was distinguished for his geniality of manner and never-failing 

 readiness to assist younger students. At the time of his death his fame 

 and foreign correspondence were somewhat extended, and he was actively 

 engaged in the preparation of materials for an illustrative cabinet of the 

 Natural History of his native State. He had published from time to 

 time in the Canadian Entomologist and the Proceedings of the Natural 

 History Society carefully elaborated results of his work, and contributed 

 to various other periodicals devoted to his favorite branch of investigation. 

 His fine private cabinet of insects, principally of the Coleopterous Order, 

 in accordance with his expressed determination, form a part of the 

 Museum of the Society to which he was attached, and is in itself no mean 

 monument to his memory.' F. G. S. 



" Mr. Sprague was elected a member of this Society May 5th. i860." 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



rhagium lineatum. 

 Dear Sir, — 



In reply to Mr. W. V. Andrews" enquiry, I would say that the above 

 insect breeds under the bark of pine stumps. I have good reasons for 

 thinking that it completes its transformations in September and hybernates 

 until tbe following spring. I had long expected such to be the case from 

 finding it in February and March, both living and dead, in the cavity 

 formed by the larva in which to pupate. But in September, 1874, I 

 found numerous specimens of the beetle that had just appeared, many of 

 them not mature in color, and with them several specimens of the pupae. 



H. L. Moody, Maiden, Mass. 



Dear Sir, — 



Mr. Andrews inquires, page 80, about Rhagium lineaium Oliv. The 

 habits of this common species are well known to collectors of Coleoptera. 

 Harris says, Ins. Inj. to Veg., p. 116 : " These grubs (larvae of Rhagium) 

 live between the bark and the wood (of pines) often in great numbers 

 together, and when they are about to become pupae, each one surrounds 

 itself with an oval ring of woody fibres, within which it undergoes its 



