'I'llK CANAIHAN KN'I'OAK )1.()< ;JS T. 79 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Although I he snow still heavily shrouds the earth, and the air is frosty, 

 the stern, cold sway of winter must soon be ended, and naturalists will 

 again go forth into the fields and forests. Before entering, however, on 

 the coming camjjaign, 1 would like to record for my fellow collectors a few 

 facts culled from my copious notes of the past one. The spring of 1882 

 was \er\- backward, so that insects were unusually scarce during April and 

 Ma)'. ( )n the other hand, the autumn was prolonged and fine, and many 

 species could be collected up to the end of October. On April 25th, I 

 carefully searched the pines for Buprestidce (which at the same date in 

 1 88 1 were abimdant). but could not find a single specimen. On May 

 nth, a second investigation resulted in the finding of only two specimens 

 of Chatcophora libcrta. Germ. On June 6th, this species was abundant, 

 and several specimens of C. r'n-ginicnsis. Dr., and ChrysobotJiris Harrisii, 

 Hentz, were also taken. C. virginiensis, Dr., C. liberta, Germ., and C. 

 fort is. Lee, were taken again on several days lietween September 24th 

 and October i6th. On April 30th, Tiger Beetles were making their ap- 

 l^earance. and some specimens of C. vulgaris. Say, were taken just 

 emerging from their winter quarters in the sand, imder stones and chips. 

 C. siw-guttata. Fab., as is well known, frequents paths and clearings in 

 woods. ( )n wet or dull days it may often be found sheltered under the 

 loose bark of fallen trees, or in the deserted burrows of borers, down 

 which it retreats when disturbed. While stripping the bark from a large 

 prostrate maple on May 22nd. to obtain larvas, 1 captured three of these 

 beautiful beetles, which had thus been driven to shelter by a shower. The 

 tree yielded numerous specimens of Eupsalis i/iini/ta, Drury, and some 

 pupte of Sapcrda trident at a, Oliv., from which imagos emerged on June 

 15th. On June i6th. while beating the branches of a butternut, I found 

 upon m\- net a Curculio (blackish with an oblique white dash on each 

 elytron), which was new to me, but could find no more upon the tree. As 

 1 was leaving the field in which it stood to enter an adjoining wood, I saw 

 upon the gate-post a similar weevil, and a glance around showed me a 

 large butternut growing but a short distance away, and having a large dead 

 limb resting on the fence. I at once concluded that the weevils had come 

 from this, and, on examining the decaying Hmb, hundreds of the beetles 

 were found upon it. On a length of only five or six feet 1 took fifty. 

 nearly all of which were paired and copulating. The l)cetle proves to be 

 Fscudonnts tru/icatus. Lee. On the 21st I took two specimens of Cepha- 



