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if I remember rightly, I took a Meloe rather late in the season, on Mon- 

 treal Mountain, last summer. I thought at the time it was a soft, rich 

 looking specimen, but I did not take a note of it. On reading Mr. 

 Brodie's paper, I examined my specimens of McIoc carefully, and found a 

 specimen of M. at>iericamis Leach in a box of duplicate Coleoptera taken 

 on the Island of Montreal, but at the time I did not know what it was. 

 Having compared it with specimens labeled nigipamis, in the Montreal 

 Natural History Society's collection, I found it to be the same ; this speci- 

 men I afterwards sent to Dr. LeConte, who gave me the correct 

 determination. 



Mr. P. Kuetzing has kindly given me a pair of this species, taken by 

 him in the latter end of July of last season (1876), in this neighborhood. 

 This is the earliest record of the appearance of americamis known to 

 me, but as Mr. Kuetzing only foujid the pair, and as the abdomen of the 

 female is quite small, we may, I think, reasonably infer that they had just 

 emerged, and were the pioneers of the August brood. 



Mr. G. B. Pearson informs me that he has seen a species of Meloe 

 common here during the latter part of summer, and noticed them late in 

 October ; doubtless the same species. 



Mr. H. H. Lyman kindly lent me three specimens of Meloe for 

 examination. One is M. aJigusticoUis Say ; the others are M. americamis 

 Leach. Mr. Lyman informs me that the specimens of americajiiis were 

 taken at Portland, Me., in August, 1873, but cannot tell when or where 

 the other was taken. He says, however, that if it is angtisticollis, it was 

 probably taken at Montreal, as he never went down to Portland before 

 the middle of July. 



In a "List of Coleoptera found in the vicinity of Montreal," by W. 

 S. M. U'Urban, Canadian Naturalist, vol. 4, p. 307, he records rugipamis 

 Lee. as common. Mr. D'Urban states that nearly all the species were 

 determined by Dr, LeConte. 



In a " List of Coleoptera collected in the Valley of the River Rouge 

 and neighboring Townships," by W. S. M. D'Urban, Geological Survey 

 of Canada, report of progress for 1858, p. 226, he records M. rngipe7inis 

 Lee, Hamilton's Farm, 31st August, and Grenville, 14th October. 



In a List of Coleoptera collected on the south-east side of the St. 

 Lawrence, from Quebec to Gaspe, and in the Counties of Rimouski, Gaspe 

 and Bonaventure, by Mr. Robert Bell, jr., same report, p. 247, he records 



