June. 1913.] Miscellaneous Notes. 159 



Physocnemum andreae Hald. in the Okefinokee Swamp in Georgia. — 



About a mile out of Waycross, Ware Co., in southeastern Georgia, 

 the Hebard Cypress Company have a large lumber mill in operation. 

 The cypress logs which feed this mill are obtained from the north- 

 western part of the Okefinokee Swamp, where the company has 

 established a logging camp, connected with the mill by a tram road 

 about 26 miles long. 



On the 9th of May, 191 1, the writer boarded one of the company's 

 logging trains, and made the trip down to the logging camp. Here 

 he spent the day collecting insects, and returned to Waycross that 

 night. The swamp had been cut over for quite a distance, and col- 

 lecting was confined to the cut area. Branches of the railroad had 

 been built out into the swamp here and there, and after the cutting 

 of the timber had been torn up again, leaving various paths from 

 which to choose over which one might proceed dry shod. During the 

 course of the day in sauntering along these old tracks, I took no less 

 than four specimens of Physocnemum andrccc. two males and two 

 females. 



\\'hile I did not make note of the species of trees that had been 

 cut off or remained standing in this part of the swamp, from a sub- 

 sequent study of a very similar situation, five or ten miles farther 

 south, deep within the Okefinokee Swamp, I am reasonably certain 

 that the bulk of the trees were made up of the following species: 

 Cypress (Taxodium distichum and T. imbricarium) ; black gum 

 {Nyssa sylvatica) : white bay (Magnolia Virginiana) ; red bay 

 (Gordonia lasianthus) and sweet bay (Pcrsea pubcsccns) with per- 

 haps some red maples (Acer rubrum). It seems probable that the 

 cypress trees are the food plant of the Physocnemum. 



During the past summer, the writer spent seven weeks encamped 

 in the heart of the Okefinokee Swamp, on Billy's Island. He was 

 with a party of several other entomologists and vertebrate zoologists 

 from Cornell University, whose purpose was to make a biological 

 reconnaisance of the swamp. During this time, from May 28 until 

 the middle of July, one more specimen of Physocnemum andrccc was 

 captured, and it was found in a spider's web. — J. Chester Bradley. 



Field Notes on Coleoptera. — Athous acanthus var. macuUcollis 

 Lee. This species was caught at Lake Hopatcong, in July or August, 



