Ill THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



in 1908 I got three or four specimens on dogwood and on the thimble- 

 berry, and in the season just over we both saw specimens feeding on 

 hawthorn blossoms. It is the Pachyta monticola, a very pretty insect with 

 pale yellow elytra, boldly marked with black or deep crimson. This 

 genus is closely related to the Lepturas, but broader across at the base 

 of the elytra, and thicker through t he sternum; its thorax, too, instead of 

 being rounded at the sides, is armed with an excrescence known to 

 Coleopterists as a "process." In 1907 and 1908 I succeeded in capturing 

 a few specimens of two more species of /'achy/a, smaller than monticola, 

 and inconspicuous in colour, black, or black with dark brown streaks 

 on the wing-covers. They were taken late in June, feeding on the 

 blossom of a dogwood. And with every fresh discovery I swelled with 

 pride as I found myself getting more and more intimate with this royal 

 family among beetles, the Longicorns. 



With the passing of May the early elder came to an end, but before 

 it was over the hawthorns began to bloom all over the neighbourhood. 

 Our first field of investigation was a field, an extensive pasture bordered 

 on one side by a wood of pine, beech and maple. At first I went all 

 about the farther end of the field wherever the snowy mass of a hawthorn 

 bush in full bVoom drew me, but I soon found that it was only near the 

 wood that my search was rewarded ; the first captures were a couple of 

 Scarabs called Trichius piger^ a beetle looking very much like a small 

 bumblebee and extremely active ; it is abundant on blossoms from early 

 in June till the middle of July, and may be found on a great variety of 

 Mowers. Then I got my first specimen of Dichelonycha ebngata, another 

 Scarab, which is particularly fond of basswood foliage, and becomes some 

 seasons a veritable plague. Finally I came to hawthorns on the border of 

 the wood, and here I found several Longicorns feeding. Among them 

 three Lepturas that were new to me, Leptura pubera, L. mutabilis and 

 L. vibex, of the last two only a single specimen. About the same date I 

 paid a visit to the wood four miles away, to see what guests the hawthorns 

 there were entertaining. On one bush at the edge of the wood I found 

 both sexes of Hoplia tri/asciata plentiful, two or three specimens of 

 Dichelonycha, and a lot of Leptura ruficollis and Cyrtophorus verrucosus ; 

 and besides these a new insect that at first I passed over for a fly, till the 

 long antenna? betrayed it ; these in the female were about the length 

 of the body, in the male twice as long ; it was the more easily mistaken 

 for a fly in that its wing-covers were reduced to a mere pair of epaulets or 

 shoulder pads. It proved to be the Longicom Mclorchus bimaculatus, 



