H6 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



of their bloom, and in full sunshine. The number of insects feeding on 

 the blossoms was astonishing ; in an hour or two I must have captured 

 several hundred beetles. Besides Z. ruficollis (with its variety spharicollis), 

 L. vibcx was plentiful, and so was Z. mutabilis, whose name now for the 

 first time became clear to me, both forms being abundant, the light brown 

 and the dark gray ; I found also a very small Leptura that was new to 

 me (Z. subargentata), and the beetle, Encyclops coerulea ; there were also 

 a few specimens of C. verrucosus, and it was then that I got my unidentified 

 species of Cyrtophorus. There were, of course, other families of beetles ; 

 in particular, Klaters, of which I captured four new species, one of which 

 I have never seen except on spiked maple, the head and thorax dark 

 brown, ending in a reddish-brown base, the elytra yellow-green, tipped 

 with dark brown. On the same blossom in another locality I have taken 

 three more Elaters, Corymbites hieroglyphicus, C. propola, and a third 

 species not yet identified, prettily marked with dark wavy lines across the 

 wing-covers ; besides these, yet another Leptura ( L. 6-maculata). Z. 

 -<ibex seems fairly to revel in. these moist woody hollows, and later on in 

 the same place on blick elder I found Z. liueola abundant. It is 

 evidently addicted to black elder, and partial to moist woodlands. 



As June drew to its close we extended our search to the south slope 

 of a long ridge of high land, some 6 miles north of P. H. On this 

 slope grew the New Jersey tea, and as there were many groves of standing 

 timber, as well as berry patches and thickets of small trees and shrubs, we 

 felt confident that we should make some finds. Our first visit to this 

 place (which we dubbed " the Rocky Mountains"; found the New Jersey 

 tea still some days short of blossoming, but there was dogwood in bloom 

 on the slopes, and almost the first bush we visited brought us three or 

 four new beetles, among them Gaurotes cyauipeunis, of the Lepturoid 

 group, a stout, robust beetle, resembling in form Pachyta mon/icola, very 

 handsome and of a brilliant dark green hue, and Z. capitata, a beetle we 

 at first took for ruficollis, but more tapering in outline, and with head 

 crimson as well as thorax. 



With the first days of July, along the southern slope of our local 

 Rocky Mountains the New Jersey tea and late elder expanded to the sun, 

 and the whole hillside became a revel of insect life. The delicate 

 fragrance of the New Jersey tea would no doubt at any time attract 

 guests to its dainty white clusters, but coming, as its blossoms do, jump 

 with the height of insect activity, and in the most glorious weather of the 

 year, the sun blazing through a breathless atmosphere, the number and 



