4M THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



chips that had been left on the stump by the axe. Son:ie of these stumps * 

 I baited with chips, and in all captured about a dozen. I have never 

 found them on dry stumps, but only under fresh chips and associated with 

 new resin. The creature closely resembles a beetle figured by Curtis in 

 his British Entomology as Jhanasinms fonnicarius ; it is there said to 

 frequent the Scotcli fir, which, of course, is also a pine. 



About the middle of May in the same season (1907) I visited the 

 basswood stumps from which the year before I had got the Saperda 

 vestita. Some of the bark that I pried up was infested with Leptura 

 rufipoUis^ and I took also from under the bark two pupae of a longicorn 

 closely alHed to Urographis. Ripping some bark from the sides of several 

 stumps, I laid it on the tops. This proved an admirable bait, and among 

 my captures were three or four specimens of a tiger-beetle {Cicindela 

 S£Xguttatd), seven specimens of a rove-beetle {Stap/iylinus vioiaceus), 12 

 or 14 of the northern Brenthid [Eiipsalis ininuta), a single specimen of a 

 locally rare darkling beetle {Phellopsis obcordatd), five Pent/ies and six or 

 eight Aldus ocu/atus; I may say that I have found the species ocu/atus very 

 common on the basswood, and in one or two cases the beetle, under con- 

 cealment of the strip of bark, had, during part of the night, half buried itself 

 in the wood of the stump. The beetle can eat very fast ; a friend of mine 

 took nine or ten from a rotten basswood log and sent them to me in a 

 stout cardboard box ; when I got the parcel one of the largest specimens 

 had eaten a hole through tlie corner of the box and was througli two folds 

 of the brown-paper wrapj^er. I have never found the allied species of 

 myops on basswood, but always in white pine^ usually under the bark of 

 dead dry stumps, where it is fairly abundant. 



Later on in the same season, while wandering about the upper reaches 

 of Gage's Creek, about six miles from the school, I passed through a 

 clearing in which hemlock had been felled ] among several other 

 Biiprestids settling on the bark of prostrate logs as well as standing trees, 

 were two that were new to me, both very active, and only to be caught 

 (unless you had a net) by careful stalking ; o:ie a small ChrysobotJiris, and 

 the other, Melanophila DnimnioJidi ; this last I had never seen before 

 and have never seen since, but on this newly-felled hemlock, as well as on 

 living trees, it was abundant, and I captured about a dozen specimens ; 

 a few days later, at the end of June, I took to the clearing a brother- 

 collector anxious to see MelanopJiila Drummondi in its native haunt, and 



