entomological section. xxi 



June 13, 1881. 



Director Dr. LeConte in the chair. 



The Publication Committee laid upon the table pages 49 — 64 of 



volume ix of the Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 



and also pages ix — xx of the l^roceedings of the Section, printed since 



the last meeting. 



Dr. LeConte desired to record the following notes of synonyms and 

 habits of Coleoptera. 



Cicindela Sommeri Mannh. — This common Mexican species was found 

 by Mr. H. Edwards, at San Diego, Cala. 



Carabus truncaticollis Eschsch. — Occurs in the higher parts of the 

 Sierra Nevada, Cala., (II. Edwards). 



Axinopalpus Lee. — Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. v, 174, (1846), has 

 priority over Varlopalpus Sol., Gray, Chili, iv, 148, (1849). The con- 

 fusion in this synonym has been produced by a typographical error in 

 the INIunich Catalogue, in which the date attributed to my genus is 

 printed 1851 instead of 1846. The verbal expansion of the name to 

 Axinopselaphus seems unnecessary and scholastic. 



Patrohus ruglcollia Randall. — Telluride, Ouray Co., Colo. ; (ll^inecke). 

 The western extension of this species is quite unexpected. 



Agyrtes longulus Lee, has been found in Maryland by Mr. Hike. 

 Previously known only from the Pacific coast. 



Platycerus Agnssii. — I have seen (juite a large number of specimens 

 of this species, but have not observed any sexual characters worthy of 

 note. Mr. Edwards has kindly given me a specimen, which by the greater 

 length of the antennal lamelhr) is evidently a S . . The ninth and tenth 

 joints of the antennae are more than twice wider than long ; the mandibles 

 are slightly more prominent ; the legs are longer and thinner ; the tibia) 

 are less strongly toothed and the tarsi are as long as the tibisc, while in 

 the 9 they are about one-third shorter. The prothorax is less dilated 

 on the sides and less constricted at the base than in the 9 • 



Gyascutus Lee, seems hardly sufficiently distinct from Latipalpis Sol., 

 to be worthy of retention as a separate genus. 



Pterotus obscuripennis Lee. — Flying at dusk. Berkeley, Cal. ; (Rivers). 



Cyllene picta. — An enormous number of individuals of this species 

 were developed from a pile of hickory wood in the cellar of a friend in 

 this city, in the latter part of April and beginning of May. The sawdust 

 from the burrows in the wood might be measured by bushels, while the 

 perfect insects invaded all parts of the house, becoming a great nuisance. 



MOXTni.Y PROC. ENT. SEC. A. N. S. (5) .H'l.V, 18S1. 



