no Trans. Acad, of Sf. T.onis 



Saprhius Iunfjcn.9 Krickson. \K. A. Scliwarz]. 

 Sapriuus assimilis Payk. [K. A. Scliwarz.] Shaken 

 out of hoad of (load rohiii, in coiTi})any with several other 

 beetles, in May 11)16. 



Ch(ilcolcpidiu.<^ viridipilis Say. [K. A. Sehwarz]. 

 Alans oculatus Loin, j l^i. A. Scliwarz]. These two 

 chick-beetles were taken at St. Louis the first of July, 

 1015. 



Limonius aqonns Say. [E. A. Schwarz]. Found on top 

 of a plant, nestling among the leaves as though asleep, 

 on June 6, 1015. 



Vhotinus pryalis. [H. S. Barber]. This lightning bug 

 was being devoured at night by a spider, Li/rosa rahida 

 Wick. [N. Banks], and all the while she was lighting up 

 the gruesome spectacle. 



Clems lunntKs Spinola. [E. A. Schwarz]. In the after- 

 noon of July 2"J 11)17, I saw this bootlo walking about on 

 a leaf of an oak shrub. Its ai)pearanco and movements 

 were so Mutillid-liko that I at first really thought tliat it 

 was a female Mutillid which had wandered from its 

 usual place. 



ThaHasimus duhius Fabr. [E. A. Schwarz]. Larva was 

 found in stem of a sumac; the adult beetle emerged May 

 21. 



Lucamis dama Thunb. This stag-beetle was taken at 

 Moselle, Mo., the female under rotten bark, on July 1, 

 and the male on the wing at the lights on July '_'. Tiater, 

 in confinement, they ate of grape loaves and strawberr}'. 

 Passalus roDiutus Fab. Thi-co of tlics.'. ko])t in con- 

 finement and fed on <lisintogratiiiir wiiito oak wood, lived 

 from March 1 to .liino 4. "^riiroo otluTs taken on April 

 7 died tlio middle of August. 



Canthon rhalcitcs llahl. [E. A. Schwarz]. Thou- 

 sands of these dung-rollers were seen about Wesco about 

 August 1, busying themselves in every available variety 

 of dung, crowding each other for choice bits and trun- 

 dling their balls down the rocky roads. There were surely 



