194 Journal New York Entomological Society. ["^^oi- ^^• 



In the material before me H. armigcr has three or four graded 

 outer spines and one inner, tibia ahiiost as long as first joint of 

 tarsus, and long claw two fifths as long. H. dipsacea is more gen- 

 eralized, with longer tibia, shorter long claw and five outer spines in 

 all. H. ononis has two series of spines, varying toward the lower 

 forms. 



HcUochcilns has become more specialized; in H. paradoxus the 

 fore tibia is decidedly shorter than the first joint of the tarsus, flat- 

 tened, with much larger terminal claws and only one spine high up in 

 the tuft of scales. H. hipatus is quite similar. Chloridca as typified 

 by viresccns is quite like H. dipsacea. 



Heliochciliis may stand then as rather unsatisfactory genus, de- 

 fined by the lack of spinules on the fore tibiae, and sexual modifica- 

 tion (usually or always?) associated with sound-production in the 

 male. — Wm. T. M. Forbes. 



Baiting for Beetles at Eagle Rock. — About the ist of May, 1909, 

 while collecting butterflies and beetles at Gt. Notch, N. J., I came 

 across a half pint cream bottle that had been discarded by some pic- 

 nickers the previous summer and which was literally filled to the brim 

 with beetles of several species but mostly Gcotrupcs splciididus. Ncc- 

 roplwnis tomentosus and marginafiis and some smaller species. I 

 emptied the contents of the bottle carefully on paper and examined 

 the insects, but they were so old and brittle and packed so closely 

 that it was impossible to get a single specimen fit to pin. I did not 

 then have a specimen of Gcotrupcs splcndidus in my collection, so 

 decided to bury a number of bottles somewhere in the Orange Mts. 

 the following September and try to secure a good series. Saturday, 

 September 3, I went to Eagle Rock and buried a dozen bottles a little 

 back from the road among the bushes and all within a half mile of 

 the Rock, 



The bottles were buried so the opening would be level with the 

 ground and most of them had about a quarter of an inch of condensed 

 milk in the bottom; some had first a layer of earth and then the con- 

 densed milk and three or four contained a little of the sugaring mix- 

 ture that I had often used for sugaring at night for moths, consisting 

 of beer, molasses, and sugar and a little asafoedita, to give it a strong 

 odor. 



