)8 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Under side of the fore wings silky, fuscous and stained with vinous 

 along the outer part of the costa. Under side of the hind wings lighter 

 than above. Under side of the body, middle and hind legs, white and 

 silky. The fore legs are pale fuscous. 



This beautiful little species was collected in Florida and sent to me by 

 Rev. Geo. D. Hulst. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



XYLORYCTES SATYRUS. 



Dear Sir : In answer to Dr. H. A. Hagen's query in the Entomolo^ 

 GIST for Dec, 1884, I have to say that some four years ago a boy brought 

 me a living specimen, a fine male, of Xylorydes satyrus, which he had 

 taken in Bleecker's Woodsj just outside of the city Hmits. 



James T. Bell, Sc. D. 



Belleville, Ont, Feb. 17th, 1885. 



Dear Sir : Dr. Hagen asks in Dec. No. (Vol. xvi., p. 239) whether 

 this beetle occurs further north than Pa. I find it recorded by Zesch and 

 Reincke in their list of species captured within fifteen miles of Buffalo ; 

 by Howard and Schwarz in list of Coleoptera of lower peninsula of 

 Michigan, presumably from Detroit ; by Pettit, as captured at Grimsby, 

 Ont., and by Prof. Bell, as taken near Belleville, Ont. It also occurs 

 here — and this is probably the most northerly record for it — but is appar- 

 ently rare. The only specimen I possess is a ^ which was brought to me 

 alive by a friend, but I have several times met with the elytra and other 

 fragments of dead specimens in or under decayed logs. It is of course 

 noticeable as being our largest representative of the Scarabffiidae, which in 

 these colder regions only muster about forty species. 



W. Hague Harrington. 



Ottawa, 25th Feb., 1885. 



Dear Sir : I am able to add to the kind answers to my query by 

 Messrs. G. Dimmock and S. Henshaw, two more. Prof. Chas. V. Riley 

 writes me that August i8th, 187 1, he found larvse, pupae and fresh beetles 

 of X. satyrus quite common at Ridge wood, N. J., under old leaves in the 



