92 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A fine male specimen of Xylophilus (Emmelmus) As/ufieadi, Csy., 

 taken near Mobile, was also sent to me by Mr. Loding. The species was 

 described from Florida. 



Nathiciis virgtnce, Csy., is a pretty Anthicid recently sent me by 

 Mr. Loding, from near Mobile. The type was described from Fortress 

 Monroe, Va. 



While collecting in the Sacramento Mountains, near Cloudcroft, N. 

 M., last June, I secured a number of specimens of an undescribed species 

 of Pselaphidae belonging to the genus Etipledus. They were found on 

 the inner surface of pine bark stripped from stumps. The specimens 

 are of the same colour as the inner bark, and are difficult to detect when 

 collecting. I also secured a single specimen of an Actium, also unde- 

 scribed. It was found in a Scolytid burrow under pine bark. 



A flowering shrub with long catkins of pink and white flowers near 

 Cloudcroft attracted hundreds of specimens of an Aleocharinid last June. 

 The species is near Flaia?idria 7fwrmonica, Csy., but Maj. Casey 

 pronounces it a new species differing chiefly in sexual characters. 

 Hundreds of specimens could be taken by inserting the catkins carefully 

 in the cyanide bottle, when a slight shake would send the beetles to the 

 bottom of the jar. 



On three collecting trips to the Sacramento Mountains of N. M., 

 near Cloudcroft, previous to my trip of last June to the same region, I 

 had taken one or two specimens of that curious little Pselaphid recently 

 described by Mr. Charles Schaeffer, of the Brooklyn Museum, as Fustiger 

 Knausii. The past season, however, I was more fortunate, and secured 

 a fine series of this rare species. They occurred in the nests of a rather 

 small, dark-coloured ant, of the genus Lasius, probably americanus^ 

 although one or two were found in the nest of a similar coloured but 

 smaller ant. These nests were on the summit, at an elevation of nine 

 thousand feet, and were found under stones. Only a small per cent, of 

 the ant colonies were inhabited by Fustiger. Occasionally one, more 

 often two, three or four, were found. My best catch was eighteen 

 specimens with one colony of Lasius. The light reddish colour and slow 

 movements of Fustiger allow them to be seen and taken easily. When 

 disturbed the colony of ants pays no attention to the beetles, but at once 

 begins to carry away the larvae and pupje. Only in one instance was an 

 ant seen to seize a Fustiger. On being captured it refused to release its 

 victim, was transferred to the cyanide bottle, and after death it was 

 necessary to sever the thorax of the Fustiger to release it from the 

 mandibles of the ant. 



