210 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Hab. — Maine (Fernald) ; Virginia (Ridings). This has much the 

 appearance of a small specimen of Cry phis americanus Cress. 



Mesostenus macilentus. — $. Black; orbits broad on cheeks, cly- 

 peus, base of mandibles, palpi, line on collar, upper margin of prothorax 

 interrupted medially, spot on disk of mesothorax, scutellum, spot behind 

 each posterior wing, line on flanks of metathorax, two spots at tip above, 

 tegulae, spot beneath, two spots on sides of pleura, the anterior one the 

 largest (both sometimes wanting), and spot at base of all the coxae, all 

 white ; front unarmed ; antennae entirely black ; mesothorax prominently 

 trilobed ; metathorax unarmed, pubescent ; wings more or less dusky, 

 areolet minutely quadrate, closed; legs long and slender, fulvo-ferruginous, 

 black line at base of posterior femora within, their tibiae and tarsi more 

 or less dusky, the second and third joints of the latter more or less pale ; 

 abdomen long, slender, ferruginous, apical segments sometimes obfuscated; 

 first segment long, linear, stigmata prominent. Length .40 inch. 



Hab. — Illinois, Louisiana (Lewis) ; Texas (Heiligbrodt). 



NOTES ON SEVERAL SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA, WITH 

 SOME ACCOUNT OF HABITS, ETC. 



BY CHARLES DURY, AVONDALE, HAM. CO., OHIO. 



Meglodacne Ulkei Crotch. 



This pretty and interesting species, described by Mr. G. R. Crotch 

 from a single specimen in the collection of Prof. Ulke, of Washington, 

 D. C, who received it from Kentucky ten years ago, has remained unique 

 in his collection until I found it, together with its larvae and pupa. 



Its food is fungus ( Polypora) growing on logs. Its full-fed larvae are 

 J/% inch long, rather slender, of light color, with the head brown ; it eats 

 out a cavity in the fungus, and there transforms to a pupa, which is of a pale 

 flesh color. When the beetle first hatches from the pupa it is of a very 

 light pinkish color, without any markings whatever. When it hardens it 



