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iO THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ELATERID^. 



Draste7-ius dorsalis (Say). Several under old wood. B. la F. 

 Monocrcpidius lividtis (Deg.) One taken on the head of a stalk of worm- 

 wood, 2 1 St May. B. la F. 



LAMPYRIDiE. 



Lucidota atra (Fabr.) B. la F. 



Pyropyga mimita Lee. One on foliage. B. la F. 



Photuris pensylvanica (DeG.) 



TELEPHORID/E. 



'^Chanliogiiathns marginatus (Fabr.) Abundant on patches of a low, 

 yellow-flowering herb ; also on daisies and some other 

 flowers. In coitn, 30th March to 17th April. 



CERAMBYCID*. 



Elaphidioii imicronatum (Fab.) One specimen, 21st May. B. la F. 



II incertum Newm. Two taken on pine boarding, 5th and 9th 



June; and one attracted to lamp in the evening, 21st May. 

 B. la F. 

 Xylotrechus colonus (Fab.) One attracted to lamp in the evening, loth 



June. B. ia F. 

 Neoclytus erythrocephahis (Fab.) One specimen taken in the heat of the 

 day on the finely-cut foliage of the common ragweed, i8th May. 

 B. la F. 

 '^Desmocerus palliatus (Forst.) On shrubs of elder bordering ditches on 

 plantations, 21st to 27th April. In coitu 22nd to 27th 

 April. B. la F. 

 Bdlaniira scalaris (Say). Several taken on elder and the common rag- 

 weed, 20th to 22nd May. /;'/ coitu same dates. B. la F. 

 Typocerus zebi-atus (Fab.) One, B. la F. 



leptura abdonmialis Hald. Three specimens taken in the flooded forest 



on a pine or cypress stump, over a mile back of the levee, 6th 



June. One of them flew from the stump and alighted upon the 



foliage of a young tree, where it was captured. B. la F. 



Acanthoderes quadrigibbus (Say). Several specimens taken on an un- 



painted, weather-beaten fence made of big, rough-hewn 



pickets, also one on a flour barrel and another on pine 



boarding, i6th to 25th May, B. la F. 



Mecas inornata Say. Taken in considerable numbers exclusively upon 



