I7(i BIOLOGICAL BUBVEY OF 



Tku hiotim s Casey (2' rich ins auct.) 



T. APFiNis.(G.andP.) (14025). Taken on all kinds of flowers 

 and particularly favor- Spina. Common from the last of 

 .Tunc to Sept. 



LUCANTDAE The Sta<* Beet Irs 



To be looked for under decaying logs and stumps. This 

 family is not well represented here. 



PlatycERUS Geoffroy 



P. quercus Web. (14041). Occurs under logs and bark. 



especially of oak, as its name implies. Bar Harbor, May 



12-28 (Br.). 

 P. depbessus Lec. (1404.")). Beehive Mt., Ang. 13 (Sanford). 



Ceruchus MacLeay 



C. piceus ( Web.) (14058). One taken dead by Brower under 

 bark of red oak while on a bird census, Dec. 23, '37. 



Cebambtcidae. The Lon<r-horned Wood-boring Beetles 



Search freshly cut timber, cord wood, and lumber yards. 

 Beating is productive as is caging likely looking pieces of 

 dead branches, etc. 



TraGOSOMA Serville 



T. DEPSABITJM var. harrisi Lec. (14097a). S. W. Harbor, 

 July, 1917 (Pernald) ; Bar Harbor, July 29; Ironbonnd Isl. 

 (Blaney). The larva lives in spruce and pine. Bare. 



A-fmim Eschscholtz 



A. moestum Hald. (14107). The larvae infest pine and 

 spruce. They will hide under chips put on freshly cut 

 stumps. Otherwise they are hard to get. June 15-Aug. 15. 



