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the Charles River in Medfield, Mass., April 19, 1919. There had been a heavy 

 rain which flooded the meadows where these little insects e\identl\' abound, 

 and dro\e them to shelter along the river bank. 



Elaphrus olivaceus Lee. Two specimens of this pretty swamp-loving 

 species were taken at Monterey, Mass., July 9, 1919, in a dark, forbidding 

 wood through which ran a small brook between low and muddy banks at the 

 spot where they occurred. E. cicatricosiis was also present at this place which 

 was partly covered with dead branches; these did not improve the conditions 

 under which they were taken by the usual method of treading about in the mud 

 and keeping a close watch of the surface for any moving object. " 



Coccidula occidentalis Horn. A specimen was given m.e by Mr. H. M. 



Parshley, who took it at Orono, Maine, May 31, 1914, by sweeping in a meadow. 

 It is almost exactly like several specimens from Edmonton, Alberta, taken by 

 Mr. F. S. Carr, who, as usual, generously shared his catch with me. These 

 were taken June 14 and 26, 1917. One of the characters given by Dr. Horn in 

 his description of the species (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. XXH, p. 114) is the black 

 colour of the first two segments of the abdomen, these being yellow at the sides 

 in lepida Lee. There are traces of yellow at the sides of the second segment 

 on some of the Alberta specimens, and the Maine specimen shows a lal'ger 

 \ellow area there. The habitat of the species is given by Horn as Wyoming to 

 \'ancouver. 



A number of specimens of C. lepida were taken along a swollen brook in 

 the debris washed down by the spring draining of a cranberry bog in Sherborn, 

 Mass., May 23, 1908, and May 16, 1909. They could not be found on following 

 >-ears nor have they been taken elsewhere. The discal spot of the el^'tra in 

 some of these specimens shows a tendency toward the cordiform shape of oc- 

 cidentalism but there is no indication of a sutural stripe connecting it with the 

 scutellar spot as in that species. 



Buprestis sulcicoUis Lee. In the "Review of the Genus Buprestis in 

 North America." by Nicolay and Weiss (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, \'ol. XXYI) 

 there appears the statement, on the authority of Dr. E. C. X'anDyke, that the 

 type "is net a brassy green insect as claimed by Casey, but of a uniform dull, 

 coppery brown with a very slight greenish reflection." As I have examined the 

 unique type four times, and on the last three occasions with special reference 

 to the colour, I feel justified in recording that the statement gives an erroneous 

 impression. With a good light on the specimen. Col. Casey's remarks (Studies 

 in the American Buprestidse), which are practically a copy of the original de- 

 scription, are correct. On a dark day the green is not so much in evidence, 

 but if the sun is shining it is really a brilliant insect. It is especially green on 

 the head and thorax, while the punctures between the rugae of the elytral 

 intervals are almost a golden green at the sides, becoming darker on the disk; 

 the whole under side of the specimen is a bright brassy green. The only parts 

 that are not green are the elytral costs and the smooth places of the pronotum. 

 which are a very dark bronze with greenish reflections. The appearance of 

 the type is that of a wholh' verdigris-green insect in which the colour is as fully 

 and completely developed as in the type of Chrysoboihris verdigripennis, and 



