The Journal 



OF THE 



Boston Zoological Society. 

 Vol, 1, July, 1882, No. 3, 



NOTES OX CERTAIN COLEOPTER A. 

 By Fred. (L BowdUch. 



The pretty little Eiicrada hmneralis Mels. inhabits the 

 bark of our eonmiori red and black oaks and beeches, it 

 spins a small, oval, tough silken cocoon or pod, in which it 

 passes the winter, and emerges in the latter part of May. 

 In beech bark (which is very thin ) it is easy to find the 

 cocoons, their white ends showing up plainly on the reverse 

 side of the bark when the latter is stripped off. 



During the past winter I have found Dicerca panctnlata 

 Schon. quite common among the debris ;ind chips of bark 

 around the bases of yellow pines in which the larva bores; 

 with it I also took a, specimen of Dicerca (iHperata Lep., and 

 one example of dhalcoplmra inrginiensis Dr. Under hick- 

 orv and walnut trees 1 have in like manner found Dicerca 

 lurlda Fab. nnd Dicerca dlve'rlcata Sax. 1 am strongly of 

 the opinion tliat a large nund^er of our Baprestlda^ hiber- 

 nate in this manner; and finding them may also give a clue 

 to the trees they infest as exampled by the five species cited. 



Several years ago 1 sugared extensively for moths. In 

 thie middle of a hot day in July hapj)ening to pass one of 

 the trees on which the sugar had been spread on the previ- 

 ous night, 1 saw feeding, a specimen of Purparlceuas hu- 

 meralw Fab. var. axillaris Hald., making the rounds of 



