THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 39 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



XYLORYCTES SATYRUS AND STRATEGUS ANTAEUS. 



Dear Sir: It must be assumed that Dr. H. A. Hagen was caught 

 napping when he penned the note published in the Can. Entom., Dec, 

 1884, vol. xvi., p. 239-240, for otherwise, with his predilection for the 

 •'literature" of entomology, he would not have failed to note that the 

 capture of Xyloryctes satyrus north of Pennsylvania had been several 

 times recorded. Presumably the reference to that species in the Am. 

 Entom., Nov., 1868, vol. i, p. 60, was to specimens taken on Long 

 Island, N. Y. This species is included in Mr. J. Pettit's " List of Col- 

 eoptera taken at Grimsby, Ont.," (Can. Entom., April, 1870, vol. ii., 

 p. 86), and in Mr. W. H. Harrington's " List of Ottawa Coleoptera," 

 (Trans. Ottawa Field Nat. Club, 1883-4, vol. ii., No. i, p. 80), and further, 

 Mr. John Hamilton (Can. Entom., June, 1884, vol. xvi., p. 107), writes of 

 this species : " This large beetle is widely distributed, being found in 

 Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas to Canada, and southward, and 

 probably occurring wherever the ash and liquidambar grow." My 

 mention, in 1884, of X. satyrus and Strategus antaeiis. in the chapter 

 " Coleoptera," of vol. ii., of Cassino's Standard Natural History, might 

 readily be overlooked, since that work is of a somewhat popular nature. 

 I there wrote, p. 370, "6". antaeus .... is found near the Atlantic 



coast of the United States as far north as Massachusetts X. 



satyrus is found in the same regions as is Strategus antaeus" These state- 

 ments were based upon specimens in my own small collection, which 

 includes ten specimens of X. satyrus, from localities north of Penn- 

 sylvania. These localities are Cambridge, Springfield and Amherst, 

 Mass.j Sufiield, Conn.; and Montauk Point (the extreme eastern end of 

 Long Island), N. Y. I have seen specimens of this species in abundance 

 on the sidewalks of Sag Harbor, eastern Long Island, and will take care 

 that even a Cambridge representative of the species is deposited in the 

 entomological collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, of 

 which Dr. Hagen takes such excellent care. Of Strategus atitaeus, my 

 collection has only a small series, as follows : Several specimens from 

 Springfield, Mass., one from Michigan, and one from Cumberland Gap, 

 Kentucky. George Dimmock. 



Cambridge, Mass., 16 Feb., 1885. 



