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vol. v., p. 205, brings it in a separate Legion, Cyliudrodites, with the only 

 genus, Cylindrodes, and describes and figures, pi. 11, a new species, C. 

 Kochii, from Australia, from a rudimentary specimen. None of the 

 authors except Gray have seen this rare insect. Probably it is a female 

 imago ; it bores in the stems of plants, committing ravages in greenhouses ; 

 it is called by the colonists, wire-worm. The tibia of the anterior legs forms 

 a hand similar to Gryllotalpa. >Vhat is known about this insect is mainly 

 the general form, which is so different from Embidina that it is barely 

 possible that this degraded family may among the Orthoptera be placed 

 not far from the Embidina. 



To try ancestral speculations upon our present insufficient, and for the 

 Embidina, very scanty knowledge^ would certainly by Darwin himself have 

 been considered illegitimate, if not something worse ! 



TRAPPING COLEOPTERA. 



BY F. B. CAULFIELD, MONTREAL, P. Q. 



Wishing to procure a good series of Silphidas for my collection, about 

 the middle of August I put some scraps of cooked meat into an empty 

 tomato can and hid it under a shrub. I visited it after a few days but 

 found ijt untouched. I then baited a can with uncooked meat and placed 

 it in a similar situation. I examined it on the 12th of August and took 

 from it the following species : — 



Necrophorus orbicoiiis, 10 specimens. 



" tomentosa (velntina), 6 specimens. 



sup ha peitata, 20 specimens. 



" margina/is, 1 2 specimens. (Of this and the preceding species I 

 could have taken many more). 

 Silpha incequaliSi 4 specimens. 

 " lapponicai i specimen. 

 " surinaniensis, i specimen. 

 Staphylhms villosiis i " 



I also took two specimens of a Staphylinus and a number of Histers 

 not yet determined. 



