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sphagnum moss or wel moss in deep woods. Some of our 

 species fly freely on warm spring mornings, particularly near 

 wet places. The way to take the bog species is to stamp 

 around on the surface of the bog and drown them out. I have 

 found by working potato patches and turning over the stones, 

 a week or two after the crop has been harvested, a most fruit- 

 ful field. When clover hay is cut and left in wind rows over 

 night many beetles will be found underneath in tbe morning, 

 where they have gone to search for other insects. Cheese is a 

 good trap bait. 



Scaphinotus Dejean 



S. vmuus (Dej.). (128). On August 24, '32, quite a number 

 of these beetles appeared in the garden of Mrs. E. C. Bod- 

 man at Seal Harbor. Their food is land snails. 



N'OMARETIS LeCOlltc 



X. bilobus (Say) (134). This species was taken but once on 

 the Island, probably because of the scarcity of its natural 

 food, tbe land snails. It is found on Long Porcupine Island 

 where tbere are snails, around the first of July, in decaying 

 white birch logs. Me.Farland Hill, Aug. 7. 



Sphaerodervs Dejean 



S. canadensis C'lid. (160). Seal Harbor, Aug. 25 (Nicolay). 

 S. lecontei Dej. (162). A mating pair taken at Hunters 



Brook, June 10 (Br.). Found on the Porcupines but scarce 



anywhere. 

 S. lecontei Dej. var. diffractus Csy. (162b). Seal Harbor, 



Aug. 24 (Nicolay). 



Carabcs Linnaeus 



C. maeander Fiseh. (166). Two specimens taken at fish bait 

 Aug. 6, '23 at Morrell Park. (Miss E. L. Sawyer.) A rare 

 form. 



