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from cover a Clerid that was then new to me ; the head and thorax were dull 

 orange, the base of the elytra the same, the rest of the elytra was alternate 

 grey-white and black. Up to that time I had only found two species — a 

 small scarlet one, fairly common, iinder bark, and one banded with orange 

 and dark blue, which is frequent on certain blossoms. Early next spring, 

 about April the 28th, I found some white pine had been felled in the winter, 

 not many miles from the school in Port Hope. Recollecting my find of the 

 previous autumn, and thinking the fresh resin might be the attraction, I 

 laid some bits of bark and chips on the surface of the stumps. On visiting 

 my traps a day or two later I was agreeably surprised to find 3 specimens of 

 the resin-loving Clerid. About the same time I got 5 more specimens from 

 newlj^-felled pine, under the chips that had been left on the stump by the 

 axe. Some of these stumps I baited with chips and in all captured about a 

 dozen, I have never found them on dry stumps, but only under fresh chips 

 and associated with new resin. The creature closely resembles a beetle, 

 figured by Curtis in his British Entomology as Thanasimus formicarius. 

 It is there said to frequent the Scotch fir, which, of course, is also a pine. 



About the middle of May in the same season (1907), I visited the bass- 

 wood stumps from which the year before I had got the Saperda vestitn. 

 Some of the bark that I pried up was infested with LepUiMa ruficolUs, and I 

 took also from under the bark two pupae of a longicorn closely allied to 

 Urographis. Ripping some bark from the sides of several stumps I laid it 

 on the tops. This proved an admirable bait, and among my captures were 

 3 or 4 specimens of a tiger-beetle {Cicindela sexguttata). Fig. 12, 7 specimens 

 of a rove-beetle (Staphylinus viola reus), 12 or 14 of the northern Brenthid 

 (Enpsalis minntn), a single specimen of a locally rare darkling beetle 

 Phellopsis oheordota), 5 Penthes and 6 or 8 Alaus ocnlatvs. I may say that I 

 have found the species oc^daHis very common on the basswood, and in one or 

 two cases the beetle, under concealment of the strips of bark, had during 

 j)art of the night half buried itself in the wood of the stump. The beetle 

 can eat very fast. A friend of mine took 9 or 10 from a rotten basswood 

 log and sent them to me in a stout cardboard box. When I got the parcel, 

 one of the largest specimens had eaten a hole through the corner of the box 

 and was through two folds of the brown paper wrapper. I have never 

 found the allied species of myops on basswood but always in white pine, 

 usually under the bark of dead, dry stumps where it is fairly abundant. 



Later on in the same season, while wandering about the upper reaches 

 of Gage's Creek, about 6 miles from the school, I passed through a clearing 

 in which hemlock had been felled. Among several other Buprestids settling 

 on the bark of prostrate logs as well as standing trees, were two that were 

 new to me, both very active and only to be caught (unless you had a net) by 

 careful stalking — one a small Chrysohothrix and the other MeJanophiJa Driiitn- 

 viondi. This last I had never seen before a«nd have never seen since, but on 

 this newly-felled hemlock, as well as on living trees, it was abundant, and 

 I captured about a dozen specimens. A few days later, at the end of June, I 

 took to the clearing a brother-collector anxious to see MelavophiJa Drinn- 

 movdi in its native haunt, and there I turned him loose. While I was 

 looking about with my eyes focussed for beetles, I. distinctly saw a pair of 

 longicorns running on the trunk of a tall elm growing at the foot of the 

 clearing near the stream. From their movements and appearance both I 

 felt sure they were longicorns and at first took them for a pair of Cyrtophortts 

 verrucosus, a beetle I am well acquainted with. An instant's reflection told 

 me that at ten yards' distance a beetle the size of Cyrtophorus would hardly be 

 visible, and I rushed towards what I was certain must be a prize. Unfor- 



