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sp., and a Baris, which seems to be new. A Solanum yielded a few 

 specimens of an Anthonomus and a very small specimen of Trichobaris 

 trinotata, a species which has proved in places a very serious pest to the 

 potato. By scratching away dead leaves in a thicket a few Lachnosterna 

 epJulida were secured, and a few also of Anisodactylus maailicomis. A 

 rotten log, on being broken, disclosed an example of Chlce.nius fuscicornis ; 

 another contained several specimens of Passa/us cornutus, with its larva. 

 An ant's nest held, besides the legitimate inhabitants, a number of the 

 curious little Limulodes paradoxus, which I have found with ants from 

 Iowa to Arizona. Dry fungus was full of Emiearthron, and in it I found 

 also a specimen of Euplectus linearis. 



At night, around the light, I added still a few species to my collecting 

 bottles — Hippodamia parenthesis, Atcenius figurator, Cyclocephala imma- 

 culata and Lachnosteina ephelida, but insects were not by any means as 

 common as I had expected them to be, so on the twenty-sixth I left for 

 Houston, Texas. 



The next afternoon, arrived at Houston, I found inside of the city 

 limits great numbers of a beautiful weevil, Eudiagogus pulcher, which has 

 a curious habit in lieu of dropping off the food-plant, as is usual with 

 most Rhynchophora when disturbed. It feeds on the leaves of the coffee- 

 weed, and usually remains on the upper surface of the leaf while eating 

 in plain sight. If disturbed, it whirls quickly around to the under surface 

 of the leaf, and either remains clinging there or runs rapidly down the 

 stem of the plant towards the ground, keeping to the under side, so as to 

 be invisible from above. With it I found associated Ano/ncea laticlavia 

 and Neoclytus erythrocephalus. 



Along the sides of the track, where the vegetation was rank, I got a 

 few beautiful specimens of (Edionychis and a few of Paria viridicyanea- 

 Under a stone occurred several Psainmodius nanus in burrows which they 

 had made just at the surface of the ground, much as some Scolytidfe bore 

 in bark. A stump covered with fungi was next investigated and proved 

 quite a rich find, yielding Platydema of two or three species, Hoplocephala 

 bicornis, Tritoma erythrocephala, T. angulata and T. atriventris, besides 

 several examples of the pretty little Eonnicomus scitulus, which seemed 

 not to live on the fungi, but on the ground near them. 



The woods themselves yielded beetles of a different sort. Beating 

 branches of lately cut pine trees was productive of a number of Drasterius 

 amabalis, a few Silyamis rectus, and a itw other things. A little Mono- 



