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logs, also a pair of Romaleum atomarium and a large M alio don serrulatus. 

 Acmceodera pulchella var. mixta and Bruchus amicus occurred on flowers. 

 The leguminose trees and shrubs yielded, by beating, Cryptocephalus de- 

 f edits, Epicauta nigritarsis and Coleocencs marmoratus, while under the 

 bark and in the wood of dead trunks and branches I took a number of 

 Phlozonemus catenulatus and Trogoxyion, sp , besides a fine Ampliicerus. 

 The dead wood was full of cerambycid larva?. 



The next stop was made at Luling, in the San Marcos Valley, a spot 

 which pleased me more than any other in Texas. The river bottom is 

 heavily wooded in places, and the holes and cracks in the great trees 

 were the hiding places of beetles of large size and great beauty. The fine 

 Zopherus haldemanni was taken here in some numbers, sometimes resting 

 on the surface of logs which were lying on the ground, or, just as often, 

 climbing on the trunks of trees seven or eight feet up. Besides these I 

 got a large Mallodon, two Alans lusciosus and a number of Strategns 

 julianus, the last nearly all dead but in perfect order — sometimes not yet 

 stiffened. They occurred in holes where trees had been torn up by the 

 roots, or often simply lying on the ground without cover or protection of 

 any sort. • Phoiuris pennsylvanica was found very commonly in one spot, 

 clinging to the trunks of trees close to the ground, while three or four 

 Chlceuius orbus were taken beneath logs in damp places. A pair of 

 Canthon cyanellus were detected in the act of inspecting a dead clam on 

 the river bank and were promptly "run in." 



The. weeds along the roads were full of a species of Chrysomela, for 

 which I can get no name. The great composite by the edges of the 

 cotton-fields furnished numerous Lixus laesicollis, Smicro/iyx obtectns, 

 Pachytychins amoenus, and some other weevils. 



San Antonio did not prove to be in as good a locality for beetles, and 

 only in a few favoured spots could anything be found. Beating along the 

 track of one of the lines of railroad proved more productive tnan anything 

 else, and in this way I obtained a number of Cryptocephalus defectus, 

 Coccinella abdominalis, Epicauta uigritarsis, and a little Galerucid not 

 yet described. The ban 1 <s of the river, close to the source, yielded Ega 

 sal/ei, Oodes sp., Ochthebius foveicollis, and Limnichus lutrochinus, with 

 several other things ; but the great haul of the season was a lot of several 

 dozen assorted ticks, which I collected on my own person after sitting on 

 a stone in the woods for a few moments to eat my lunch. 



