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at the beginning- of J'une while prying the bark from a basswood stump. I 

 discovered something like a dozen specimens cf Scrperda vestita, newly 

 hatched and buried in the inner bark of the tree. I had my killing bottle 

 with me, but as the insects were still soft I put them into a small tin box. 

 Here they crawled about excitedly, squeaking (or rather, stridulating) when 



Fig. 11. Dicerca 

 divaricata. 



Fig. 12. Cicindela 

 sex-guttata . 



Fig. 13. Monohammus 



scutellatu?. 



/ 



/ 



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Fig. 14. Monohammus confusor. 



Fig. 16. Prionus laticoUia. 



Fig. 15 . Orthopoma brunneum . 



handled. On examining them after my return home, I found they had 

 fought in the box, two of them had had their antennae nipped off and several 

 had been deprived of their full complement of legs. I had not yet learned 

 the advantage of laying the detached bits of bark on the stumps as shelter 



