362 JOHN HAMILTON, M. D, 



In the eastern hemisphere, according to Bedel, it is nearly cosmopolitan, 



Horn. 

 125. C. lugubris Payk., Faun. Suec. i, p. 59. — Canada and the New England 



States to Maryland ; California, Nevada, Horn. Wrangel, in Alaska, 



Wickham. General in temperate and northern Europe; western Siberia 



on the Jenisei. Heyden, 63. 

 12(). C. tristis Illig., minutus Muls. (C. minidus Fab., 111., tristis III., Cat. iv). 



Ohio, Michigan to Iowa, Dakota, California, Washington, Nevada, 



Europe generally ; Barnaul, west Siberia. Heyden, 63. 



127. C. granarius Er., miwiitscM^MS Mels. — Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, District 



of Columbia, Horn. Britain, France, Germany, Sweden. 



128. Cryptopleurum rainutum Fab., atomarium \\ Oliv. et Auct. plur., vagans 



(C. atomarium Oliv., minutum Herbst,, Bedel, Cat. iv). — '"Canada and the 

 New England States to Maryland ;" abundant here in Pennsylvania, 

 and I have it from Iowa and Illinois ; Ohio, Dary. '' General in Europe, 

 extending to Siberia, the Amur region, Japan, and should be found on 

 tiie Pacific coast," Horn. Western and eastern Siberia. Heyden. 63. 



PLATYPSYLLID^. 



129. Platypsyllus castoris Kits. — The systematic position of this curious in- 



sect seems to be now finally settled. " First discovered on the American 

 beavers in the Zool. Gardens at Amsterdam. It is now known to in- 

 habit the beavers of Texas, Nebraska, the Hudson Bay regioji, Alaska 

 and those taken in France at the mouth of the Rhone (Horn)." T. xv, 

 23-26; T. x, 114 and plate v. 



LEPTINID^. 



130. Leptinus testaceus Mull., americanus Lee. — cauc.asicus Mots. — Occasion- 



ally inhabits with various small rodents, but mere frequently in old 

 leaves about and under logs and stones. Taken frequently and abun- 

 dantly at St. Vincent Monastry, Westmoreland County, by P. Jerome 

 Schmitt, also occurred here once ; Philadelphia, Pa., District of Colum- 

 bia ; Ohio, Dury. Iowa; Queen Charlotte Island, Fletcher. Many places 

 in Eurojie, Caucasia. Pr. 1866, 367; T. x, 113; C. 77; Can. Ent. xxiii. 

 183. 



SILPHID^. 



131. Necrophorus vespilloides Hbst., mortuorum Fab., pygmxns. hebes Kirby. 



defodiens Mann., ])oUinctor Lee., conservator Walker. — J''i-om Nova Scotia 

 to Alaska (Canada, Michigan, Lake Superior, Queen Charlotte Island ; 

 var. polUnctor, from Washington and Oregon, has the anteniijB entirely 

 black). Under the wame. mortuorum it inhabits east Siberia to Kamts- 

 chatka and Amuriand. Europe. Pr. 1866, 367; T. viii, 234 and 314; 

 Col. Am. 126; Heyden, 87; Heyden, 1886. 



132. Silpha lapponica Hbst., caudata Say, tuberculata Germ., californica iMann., 



granigera Cliev. — Labrador, common, Packard ; Hudson Bay region, 

 Lee. Cat.; Canada, Green Mountains, Vermont, New York, western 

 Pennsylvania near the mountains, Michigan, Lake Superioi-, Nevada, 

 Idaho, Colorado, Kansas, Texas (El Paso), New Mexico, California, (San 



