32 [August 



of the Delaware, on a bend somewhat elbow-shape, about one mile above 

 Red Bank, N. J. The insect flies gracefully, seldom rising more than 

 four feet from the ground, and it alights with ease; it is in no hurry to 

 rise, and walks rather lazily, opening and extending its beautiful antennae. 



The day was warm and calm. Visited the same place again about a 

 week afterwards, but found only one specimen, under a block of wood. 



The day was cool and windy. 



Also the following Coleoptera, captured during last month, in the same 

 locality: Anci/luchira lineata, on wild Chamomile; C'ori/mljites apprcssi- 

 frons^ on Oak trees; Drapetes geminahis^ Chalcolepldms vlridipilis^ Dec- 

 tes spinosa, (follops quadrimacvJatus^ and Rhipiphorus dimidiatus, taken 

 on flowers with beating-net; Cli/hhn puhescena^ about wood- piles at Reed 

 street wharf; Tetraopes canteriator^ on the Asclepias PhyJotaccoides; Mic- 

 rorhopala Xercne, taken in abundance with the beating-net, on the banks 

 of Timber Creek, about one mile east of Woodbury Turnpike, N. Jersey. 



Also a communication from Mr. Cresson, reporting the capture of the 

 two following species of Coleoptera, during the fore part of July : 



Stratcym Antsem. This insect burrows in the sandy fields of New 

 Jersey, and were taken quite common by digging for them. They de- 

 scend to the depth varying from one inch to a foot, the females were gen- 

 erally found deeper than the males. By searching for them early in the 

 morning, they can be captured with greater ease, as the earth around 

 the holes is fresh. Locality, near Gloucester, New Jersey. 



Tcfraopps canter lator. Came upon a locality for this insect, between 

 Gloucester and Red Bank, New Jersey, where it occured in considerable 

 abundance. It frec^uents the same species of A.sdtpias as the T. tetroph- 

 fhdlmus, but were found only upon the young plants. 



The following communication was received from Mr. T. B. Ashton, of 

 Washington County, New York, and read before the Society, April 25th, 

 1859 :- 



" PoDURA MVicoLA, Fitch. — Foiind on the 18th of April, weather cloudy and cold, 

 temperature above 50° Fah. This insect was met with in countless numbers on 

 and near a swampy piece of ground, through which ran a small creek. My atten- 

 tion was first directed to what I supposed to be soot floating down the creek, and 

 paid no further notice to it, until I discovered the insect in large numbers in the 

 Highway, a few rods distant from the creek, and then suspecting the cause of the 

 soot-like appearance floating on the water, I returned, and to my surprise, found 

 countless millions of them alive and active, piled upon each other to the hight of 

 half an inch, and in spots varying from an inch or less, to twelve inches in diame- 

 ter, floating on the water in every eddy, for a distance of about thirty rods. 



I also observed them in vast numbers, in every direction for rods around the 

 creek. This was the only place I met with them on that day, though I passed over, 

 on foot, a tract of countrv fifteen miles in extent." 



