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in 1906 I found scores of Lehiu furoacta ( a small Carab of the Bombardier group) 

 feeding on golden-rod about the margin of a swamp at Lanark, and last July I 

 captured two fine specimens of the large blister beetle, Pompliopa'a Saya, in Mus- 

 koka, upon nannyberry {Viburnum lentago). 



When the hawthorn began to bloom in 1907, I went eagerly back to work my 

 claims, for the bloom of a hawthorn last barely a week, and seems to attract 

 insects for only a day or two. I had already ruled out the shrubs growing in 

 the open; so I went first to the edge of the wood, but this faced west, and was 

 exposed to a chilly wind. There was nothing to be found, and I followed the 

 gleam of hawthorn north across some stump lands to a large wood ; skirting its 

 west and north border, I came presently to a stretch of low swampy ground that 

 penetrated the wood in a southerly direction, and was entirely out of the wind. 

 It was thickly grown with dogwood and spiked maple, both of which were in the 

 prime of their bloom, and in full sunshine. The numher of insects feeding on the 

 blossoms was astonishing; in an hour or two I must have captured several hundred 

 beetles. Besides L. rvficoUis (with its variety sphcericoUis) , L. vibex was plentiful 

 and so was L. mutabilis, whose name now for the first time became clear to me, 

 both forms being abundant, the light brown and the dark gray; I found also a 

 very small Leptura that was new to me (L. svhargentata) , and the beetle, Ency- 

 clops cceruleu; theire were also a few specimens of C. verrucosus, and it was then 

 that I got my unidentified species of Cyrtophorus. There were, of course, other 

 families of beetles; in particular, Elaters, of which I captured four new species, 

 one of which I have never seen except on spiked maple, the head and thorax dark 

 brown, ending in a reddish-brown base, the elytra yellow-green, tipped with dark 

 bro\\^n. On the same blossom in another locality I have taken three more Elaters, 

 Corymbites liieroglypliicus, C. propola, and a third species not yet identified, prettily 

 marked with dark wavy lines across' the wing-covers; besides these, yet another 

 Leptura ( L. 6-inaculata) . L. vibex seems fairly to revel in these moist woody 

 hollows, and later on in the same place on black elder I found L. lineola abundant. 

 It is evidently addicted to black elder, and partial to moist woodlands. 



As June drew to its close we extended our search to the south slope of a. long 

 ridge of high land, some 6 miles north of P. H. On this slope grew the New 

 Jersey tea, and as there were many groves of standing timher, as well as berry 

 patches and thickets of small trees and shrubs, we felt confident that we should 

 make some finds. Our first visit to this place (which we dubbed "the Rocky Moun- 

 tains") found the New Jersey tea still some days short of blossoming, but there 

 was dogwood in bloom on the slopes, and almost the first bush we visited brought 

 us three or four new beetles, among them Gauroies cyanipennis, of the Lepturoid 

 group, a stout, robust beetle, resembling in form Pachyta monUcola, very handsome 

 and of a brilliant dark green hue, and L. capitatm, a beetle we at first took for 

 ruficoUis, but more tapering in outline, and with head crimson as well as thorax. 



With the first days of July, along the southern slope of our local Rocky Moun- 

 tains the New Jersey tea and late elder expanded to the sun, and the whole hillside 

 became a revel of insect life. The delicate fragrance of the New Jersey tea would 

 no doubt at any time attract guests to its dainty white clusters, but coming, as its 

 blossoms do, jump with the height of insect activity, and in the most glorious 

 weather of the year, the sun blazing through a breathless atmosphere, the number 

 and variety of guests swarming to the feast were almost beyond belief. Some- 



