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on the piles of newly sawn lumber. Xylotrechus fiiscus occurred on the 

 logs and board piles at rare intervals, and a specimen was taken on the 

 trunk of a partly dead fir high up among the branches. This specimen 

 has the pubescence of the prothorax and elytra in excellent preservation 

 and clearly shows that fuscus is entitled to specific rank. It is undoubt- 

 edly, as noted by Col. T. L. Casey (Mem. on the Col. Ill, p. 359), more 

 nearly allied to Jiauticus than to imdulatus. X. colojius was taken but once. 



Neoclytus erythrocephalus was often seen running over ash logs, and 

 a few specimens of N. muricatuhis, so much resembling ants that they 

 may have been unnoticed many times, were taken. The variation in size 

 of these species was strikingly great; specimens at hand measure from five 

 to twelve millimeters in length. It may also be noted here that specimens 

 of Mo7ioha7nmus scidellatus, selected from the very large amount of mater- 

 ial available at that time, show a variation in each sex of from 13 to 25 mm. 



Acanthocinus obsoletus was abundant and almost invisible against the 

 bark of the white pine logs on which they rested. Ecyriis dasyceiiis was 

 beaten from the branches of a dead poplar near the logs, and a single Fur- 

 puriceîius humeralis was once swept from a low bunch of Salix near the 

 road. 



I have at hand a single example of Saperda calcarata of uncertain 

 date but which was undoubtedly bred in the poplars that fringe the high 

 bank between the yard and the pond. 



Even now in fancy, I can see the old saw7er as he stood with hand 

 on the lever that controlled the log carriage and watched the saw tear 

 through the huge pine logs. One day he called me, then a small boy, to 

 see "this funny looking bug" pinned on the beam behind him. It was 

 Saperda calcarata and the specimen formed the nucleus of a very hetero- 

 geneous collection which has, like the old sawyer, long since crumbled 

 into dust. 



Saperda obliqua^ and the variety of lateralis having the post-median 

 cross bar on the elytra, have been beaten from Alnus incana on two 

 occasions. A variety of Oberea tripunctata S wed. (possibly amabilis) has 

 occurred in some numbers on this "plant, both at Monmouth and Wales. 

 Variations of affinis and ??iafidarifia have been beaten and swept from 

 bushes. One specimen of S. vestita was taken on a board pile in the yard. 



One of the rarest and most interesting of the Cerambycidie was taken 

 wandering over the pine needles beneath a huge white pine near the yard. 

 It was Pachyta rugipennis and nearly escaped me by its superficial re- 

 semblance to Rhagium lineatum which is not rare on the logs. 



