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cenied there was nothing to favor the particular locality. My activity 

 and success in taking these interesting hexapods at the seaside excited 

 on many occasions the curiosity of some equally interesting bipeds, who, 

 barefooted and wading through the surf, doubtless ridiculed my energy 

 and thought me mad. 



" Let Ileicules himself do what he may, 



The cat will mew, the dog will have his day." 



At the last of spring and in the early summer, Calosoiita scrutator Fabr. 

 can be found at these beaches. The past seasons, however, gave me but 

 few specimens. Doryphora dccem-lmeata lined the shore during both sum- 

 mers, having been developed in great numbers in the many potato fields of 

 this island-garden of New York. Cotalpa lanigera Linn, and P. humeralis 

 Fabr. were found during the month of June among the sea weed; the former 

 readily discovered by its brilliant coloring of green and yellow, and the 

 latter by its scarlet spot in a setting of dull blue. A wrecked bark furnished 

 me with good specimens of Nccrophorus Ainericanus Oliv. and other genera 

 of the Silphidse family, together with an occasional unpleasant reminder 

 of the dog that had had his day. Of the tribe Cetoniini only a few specimens 

 were obtained ; Euryomia fiilgida in June, Allhorinanitida in July, and 

 E. inda at the last of summer. Harpahis caliginosus Say was captured in 

 September hid away in the drift at the tide mark. Of this species I would 

 note here the suddenness of its appearance in Columbia county, this 

 State, in the autumn of 18S2. In the early part of September I found a 

 single specimen under a stone. On the 13th, a dark and misty day, I 

 captured twenty, and could have taken hundreds feeding upon the seed 

 tops of a common weed, Ambrosia arteviismfolia. The day before 

 and for several days thereafter until the 27th, when I returned to town, 

 only an occasional one was seen. Among the treasures of the beach 

 I collected several shells, perforated in every part by the young of 

 one of the lower order of Crustaceans, and rendered immaculate 

 by the washings of the tide and the sun's rays. The minute winding 

 galleries, not larger than pin holes, displayed exquisite workmanship, 

 resembling the most delicate lace. The mouth parts of these Sea Worms, 

 or Barnacles, are strong and corneous, and are capable of excavating 

 galleries in the hardest substances. I have in my collection a portion of 

 a slab of white Italian marble, recovered in 1878 from the wreck of the 

 ship Grecian, from Leghorn, that foundered off the coast of Long Island 



