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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Stenomimus pallidus Boh. — May eleventh, 1893, while collecting 

 beetles in the prehistoric cemetery near Madisonville, Hamilton Co., 

 Ohio, I examined the trunk of a fallen black walnut tree (Juglans 

 nigra). I pulled off the bark and in the moist fibers beneath there 

 were thousands of this species. I had never taken it before and 

 when I came home and studied it, I recognized it by the description 

 given by Horn in Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, p. 441. Returning to the 

 locality three days later for more specimens, I found the bark dried 

 up and not a specimen to be obtained. Nor have I met with it 

 since. This was evidently its breeding place and minute pale grubs 

 were observed with the beetles, the larvae. — Charles Dury. 



Local Species of Dermestes. — While nothing can be added to the 

 synopsis printed in this Journal (VHI, pp. 140-143; 1900), an 

 isolated statement of the differences that characterize our four local 

 species may be useful to some readers. D. lardarins has the front 

 part of the elytra uniformly and closely clothed with pale reddish 

 hairs, except for three denuded spots. D. caninns is decidedly mar- 

 marate with pale hairs, mingled with some reddish ones on the thorax. 

 It is black, comparatively broad and the male has tufts of brown 

 hair on two ventral segments. D. vulpinns is dark brown or piceous 

 in color, sparsely clothed with gray hairs, which are noticeably con- 

 densed at the sides of the thorax. It is more elongate, the sutural 

 angle of the elytra is prolonged into a distinct tooth, and the male 

 has the tuft of brown hair on one ventral segment only. D. frischii 

 is black, clothed with gray hair, condensed, as in viilpinus, at sides of 

 thorax, but with a dark spot near base within the pubescent part. 

 It is as broad as caninus but like vulpinns has only one ventral seg- 

 ment with the tuft of brown hair. The color characters may be 

 obscured in poorly preserved specimens, but the male tufts of hair 

 and the difference in form will still serve to separate these species. — 

 C. W. Leng. 



Tychius (Microtogus) picirostris Fab. — In European specimens of 

 T. picirostris in the Nat. Museum collection, shown me by Mr. E. A. 

 Schwarz, I recognized the species described by me as T. grisciis from 

 Ithaca, N. Y. — Charles Schaeffer. 



