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cavity. These rolls remain on the hushes sometimes for 

 several days, but probably drop by the time the larva 

 escapes from the egg, and it seems probable that the grub 

 uses the roll for a shelter until it matures and is ready to 

 enter on its transformation to a beetle. Common on alder. 



Ai'iox Herbst 



A. pinitimum Fall (16380). Seal Cove Brook sweeping wild 

 carrot and ferns, Aug. 7, '35; Station F214. 



A. pennsylvanictjm Boh. (16392). Narrows, Aug. 3, sweep- 

 ing. 



A. walshi Sm. (16423). Recorded as occurring on white 

 birch and in the galls of a willow. S. W. Harbor; Bar Har- 

 bor; Long Pond, July 15-Sept. 7. 



A. porcatum Boh. (16439). Penikese, beaten from locust, 

 July 31. 



Phyxelis Schonherr 



P. eigidus (Say) (16499). Penikese, sweeping daisies and 

 buttercups just in bloom, F377, June 12. 



ScvTHROPr.s Schonherr 



S. elegaxs (Coup.) (16626). Section 40 with tangle-foot, 

 June 5. 



HORMORUS Horn 



IT. txdulatus (Uhler) (16635). General sweeping best way 



with these. Seal Harbor (Stowell), Aug. 9. Not common. 



Sciaphilis Schonherr 



S. mtjkicatus (Fab.) (16640). Lake Wood sweeping blue- 

 berry and low bushes, June 11; Penikese beating high 

 bushes, June 15; Paradise Hill beating bushes, Sept. 27. 

 An introduced species. Common. 



