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Ochthebius attritus.— Among the beetles collected in Florida by 

 Dr. Frank E. Lutz, of the American Museum, are several specimens 

 of this species which, he tells me, were found in a small body of 

 water in a roadside ditch near Titusville. The water was still at the 

 time (November 8, 1912) and 80° Fahrenheit, but evidently in slow 

 motion at more rainy seasons. Dense vegetation clothed the soil at 

 the bottom of the pool. Most of the specimens are testaceous in 

 color with only a feeble metallic lustre; mixed with them were two 

 specimens of O. joveicollis, readily separable by their dark green 

 metallic color, as well as by the deep fovese of the pronotum. — C. W. 

 Leng. 



Ceutorrhynchus hamiltoni Dietz. — Mr. Norman S. Easton has s^nt 

 me specimens of this Curculionid beetle, collected in Newport Co., 

 R. I., in July, on a beach plant identified by Mr. William T. Davis as 

 Cakile edcntula. — C. W. Leng. 



Cicindela blanda Dej. — Prof. J. Chester Bradley has sent me 

 specimens of this tiger beetle, collected July 28, at Groveland, Ga., on 

 the Canouchee River. This is the type locality for C. tarsalis Lee, 

 so that Professor Bradley's capture confirms the synonymy already 

 published and the occurrence of C blanda on the Atlantic as well the 

 Gulf slope of Georgia. — C. W. Leng. 



Cryptic coloration. — A pair of Galasa riibidana Walk, were ob- 

 served in copula at Highland, N. Y., July 22, 1913. The pair were 

 resting upon the upper surface of intact elder (Sambucus) foliage 

 and presented such a close resemblance to a piece of brown, dead leaf 

 held in place by irregular spider threads that we were thoroughly de- 

 ceived for several moments. The moths were joined end to end and 

 rested with their bodies a little out of a straight line. The coppery 

 or purplish red forewings with their indistinct, lighter maculations 

 were nearly horizontal to the supporting leaf. The deception was 

 further increased by the light gray legs with their dark, white annu- 

 late tarsi which closely resembled, in a general way, an irregular 

 series of dirty spider webs. — E. P. Felt. 



