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for many years on the Queen Charlotte Islands, and has recently moved to his present 

 address. 



Notes op Captures. 



Cicindela limbata, Say. Reported by Mr. Hanham as found on the sand hills bordering 

 the Douglas swamp, Man., on June 18, 1899. " They looked like large white spiders- 

 skimming over the sand. I found them copulating buried in the sand, with just their heads 

 showing." 



Cicindela pusilla, Say. This rare species was taken by Mr. L. E. Marmont, at Roun- 

 thwaite, Man., and also by Mr. Hanham, at Bird's Hill, near Winnipeg, in 1900. 



Cychrus tuberculatus, Harr. This rare and handsome species is occasionally taken in Van- 

 couver Island. Comox, B.C. (Taylor, Eletcher, and Prof. J. Macoun.) The Rev. J. H. Keen 

 found it not uncommon at Massett, on Queen Charlotte Islands. Two fine specimens were 

 taken at Coldstream, twelve miles from Victoria, in June last. (Hanham.) The food of beetles 

 of the genus Cychrus is generally stated to be snails, but Mr. Hanham writes : " 1 have found 

 Cychrxhs angusticollls and C. marginatus in colonies in rotten stumps evidently preying upon 

 slugs, which were with them. I think, for every snail they get here, they get one hundred 

 slugs. I have caught C. marginatus in my garden feeding on slugs." 



Cychrus angulatus, Harr. This very rare species has been again taken on Vancouver Island 

 by the Rev. G. W. Taylor. Superficially, it resembles the black form of C. angustkollis, but ha» 

 the thorax differently shaped, and the punctuation and striation of the elytra are quite diflferent. 

 " Near Brennan Creek, July 1, I have only seen three in nineteen years." (Taylor). 



Carabns nemoralis, Mul. This interesting carab was first recorded by Dr. Horn as a Cana- 

 dian species in 1891. Later in the same year Mr. Harrington took several specimens at St^ 

 John, N.B., associated with another European species, G. gramdatus, Dej., and published a note 

 in the Canadian Entomologist, 1891, p. 112. Mr. Mcintosh now finds both of these species abun- 

 dant at St. John, and speaks of C. gramdatus as our commonest ground beetle. 



Pasimachus elongatus, Lee, taken not uncommonly at Aweme. (Criddle.) Under stones- 

 in the Brandon Hills. (Hanham.) 



Clioina pallida. Say. »St. John, N.B., rare. (Mcintosh). 



Diemlus scul2)tilis, Say. "This species was not uncommon in Winnipeg in 1894. I have 

 not seen a specimen since." (Hanham.) 



Platynus demens, Lee. Rare in Canadian collections. Originally described from Nova 

 Scotia. St. John, N.B. (Mcintosh.) 



Platynus hardyi, Lee. This beetle has been taken on the sea shore in Nova Scotia in 

 former years by Mr. Harrington ; also, in numbers along the Nepigon River. (Fletcher.)- 

 Common, St. John, N.B., 1901. (Mcintosh.) 



Chloiuius piirpuricollisy Rand. One specimen taken at Brandon, September 27, 1900, 

 Another was taken on almost the same spot, April, 1897. (Hanham.) 



Chhunius interruptus, Horn. " In May, 1898 and 1899, this species was abundant along a 

 short piece of railway line, two or three hundred yards, near Winnipeg." (Hanham.) 



Tanyrhinus singtdaris, Mann. One flying October 24, 1898. Gabriola Island, B. C» 

 (Taylor.) Massett, Q.C.I. (Keen.) 



Adranes tayl(rri, Wick. Two or three found in April and May in the nest of a yellow ant, 

 Gabriola Island and Nanaimo. (Taylor.) 



Mysia hornii, Cr. A few on currant bushes, Gabriola Island. (Taylor. ) 



Aphorista Imta, Lee. Under bark of alder and hemlock, March to May, Nanaimo- 

 (Taylor.) 



Mycetina hornii, Cr. Nanaimo, May 22. One under bark of fallen fir, April 30. 

 (Taylor.) 



