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a Maine hillside in the town of Wales, when I caught a gleam of 

 emerald in a small patch of freshly washed out earth on which a 

 wandering sumbeam for a moment rested. I picked up the speci- 

 men and carelessly threw it in to the alcohol bottle, thinking it a 

 new record for Gaiirotes cyanipenfiis, for I had never seen it in Maine. 

 Some weeks later, when I came to examine it, I faund it was 

 A nlhophilax malacliiticus. 



The most conspicuous — that is, after they were once seen- of the 

 ElateridcB were Alaus oculatus and myops, which were taken on the 

 board piles with Agriotes stabilis (also taken on raspberry flowers) 

 and Elater semicinctus. Corymhites cruciatiis was taken only once 

 flying in the yard. 



When the shadows began to lengthen, the air was filled with 

 minute flying forms — Scolytidce, StaphylinidcB, Lathridiidce and 

 many others whose family names have not yet been noted. 



On the second day after my arrival, a small sand-bar at the 

 edge of the river attracted my attention, and before I was aware of 

 it, an hour had passed. Here I secured a single Elaphrus riparius, 

 my first record for New England, although I have seen several 

 from the Lake of the Clouds, Mt. Washington, N. H. By scooping 

 up water and throwing it over the mud and sand, numbers of 

 Bemhidium, StaphylinidcE, and a few Omophron americanum, and 

 Heterocerus tristis, were taken. 



On another day, when the sun had become obscured and a 

 cold wind had driven all the lumber-loving sp_ecies to cover, I 

 spent two or three hours throwing water with an abandoned basin 

 upon the stony beach that marks the fording place of an old Indian 

 trail. Here several species of Bemhidium, Tachys scitulus, Hyp- 

 noideus exigims a larger species of Hypnoideus, Apristus subsulcalus, 

 Omophron tessellatum, and many species of Staphylinidce were driven 

 out of their hiding places and captured as they scurried about. 

 When the basin failed me and more water came through the 

 bottom than out the top, I turned my attention again to the slab 

 piles and stray bits of lumber. Here I found Dinoderus substriatus 

 (?) boring into the strips of bark that clung to small bits of pine 

 slabs. A fine specimen of Ditylus cceruleiis encouraged me to handle 

 over a cord or so of pitchy pine and silvery hemlock, without 

 further success, except a few well-known Histeridce and Cucujidce. 



