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variety of guests swarming to the feast were almost beyond belief. Some- 

 times an altercation would arise, when some blundering glutton (like 

 Bombus or Trichius) tried to elbow his way into a blossom where there 

 was no longer standing room. But " with them," as Wordsworth points 

 out, " no strife can' last." 



" For why ? — because the good old rule 



" Sufficeth them — the ancient plan 

 " That they should get who have the power 

 "And they should keep who can," 



— and the weakest go to the wall. 



Among the many new species we met with in these happy hunting- 

 grounds were several members of the group Clyti, between the Cyllenes and 

 the Anaglypti; of this group we found an occasional specimen oiXylotrechus 

 colonus, and a small Neoclytns, while Clytanthns ruricola was abundant. 

 In the Lepturoid group we took many specimens of a genus we had not 

 found at all before, Typocerus, of which we met with three distinct species, 

 one black ( T. Ingubris), one black and yellow, banded like a wasp ( T. 

 sparsus), and a third mottled with patches of straw-colour and reddish- 

 brown ( T. velutinus). 



In midsummer heat insects seem to grow nervously alert and restless, 

 and we found the Typocerus often defied capture ; they would hover at a 

 blossom without settling, like miniature humming birds, their tiny wings 

 fanning with marvellous velocity, while their flight from one point to 

 another was of the swiftest. A small beetle in flight is never conspicuous, 

 and some of them when they settle on a blossom seem to have stepped 

 out of the infinite, and when they take to flight again they pass away into a 

 4th dimension, as though, like Wordworth's skylark, they too enjoyed a 

 " privacy of glorious light," but one that needed no soaring to gain. 

 More than once we found with birds of this feather that one in the hand 

 was by no means worth two in the bush ; there proved many a slip 

 between the cup of one's closed first and the lip of the cyanide bottle. 



To the Lepturas themselves, already a long list, we added L. sub- 

 hamata, zebra, vagans, proxima, biforis, vittata, Canadensis, and three 

 species, at least, unidentified. Of these, proxima and subhamata seem to 

 prefer the elder, and Canadensis the milkweed. In the same neighbour- 

 hood, from the heart of a dogrose I flushed an Oberea bimacnlata, and from 

 plants of the wild bergamot, with its sweet fragrance and delicate lavender 

 blossoms, a whole covey of some smaller Oberea that I have not yet 

 identified. I say "flushed" advisedly, for in the first instance I did not 



