THE 



Quarterly Journal 



OF THK 



Boston Zoological Society, 



Vol. i.-JULY, 1882.-NO. 3. 



CONTEXTS. 



Page. 



NOTES ON CERTAIN COLEOPTERA. By Fred C. 



Bowdifch. 27 



NOTES ON THE LARVAE OF CERTAIN HETERO- 



CEROUS LEPIDOPTERA. By Rev. N. Coleman. 28 



THE RARER BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS. By Ar- 

 thur C. Chadhouriie. 30 



NOTES ON THE HABITS AND DISTRIBUTION OF 



BOLITOTHERUS BIFURCVS. By R. Hayvard. 35 



GENERAL NOTES. — 



Baird's Sandpiper at Marblehead, Ma^s. ; A third Specimen of the Swallow-tailed Gull 

 {Xema furcaium) ; Two Rare Carabidae from Eastern Massachusetts; Cicindela 

 ancocisconensis (Harr.) in Vermont. 



BOSTON, MASS. 

 PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. 



