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branch in the same neighbourhood; also on July 4th, revisi'ting 

 this dead limb of my first captures west of Chemong, I took 4 tnore 

 specimens, including a mating pair and a single specimen in the 

 very act of emerging, its head and antennae alone being visible. 

 Examination of the insect's burrow and of others in which I founds 

 larvae, went to prove that it is fondest of dead wood and that it 

 does not bore deep, the tunnels being all either in or just below the 

 under bark. For nearly a fortnight I came across occasional 

 specimens of the beetle, and had the unique experience of making 

 one capture on a dead maple; altogether my catch for the season 

 of this rare longicorn was well over 40 specimens. It never rains 

 but it pours. 



Part II. 



On this holiday of July 2nd, it was still early afternoon when 

 I returned to th? picnic ground; learning there that the men, after 

 landing a small sunfish, had been converted from angling-rods to 

 hoes, I hurried off to encumber them with help. When I reached 

 the fence and hailed the toilers, I found that the stony land in a 

 fit of wanton mischief had smashed one of their hoes and — in short 

 they scorned my profi"ered help and (in much the tone that the 

 Athenians of old consigned a man "to the crows") they bade me 

 be off to my beloved bugs. 



"There's many a true word spoken in jest," though that was 

 not the comment I muttered as I turned away in the direction of 

 a fallen poplar by the roadside. It was a balsam or small balm- 

 of-Gilead, and on it I found 2 specimens of Hyper platys aspersa, 

 my first that season. Working east, I then skirted the fence be- 

 tween the road and the market-garden. Almost at the corner of 

 of the half-acre lot I noticed, doing duty for a top rail in the old 

 snake-fence, a dead brush-head of hemlock; branches, twigs, and 

 actually a few cones still in place; quite dry, even to the patches 

 of resin upon it. I examined this closely in hopes of longicorns 

 or buprestids, as the sun poured its burning rays over the surface. 

 and presently on the south side I noticed a curious looking weevil 

 that was strange to me; it was black and rough on the back, with 

 a conspicuous, broad patch of dull, white across the elytra near the 

 base; it reminded me a little, in pattern at least, of a somewhat 

 uncommon beetle called Eurymycter which I have occasionally 



