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The holotype was taken at Niagara Falls, New York, on June 25, 

 but the year and collector are not recorded. 



The genital segments of the type specimen were somewhat dis- 



/=^ forceps; g.s.^ and <7..j.o := first and second genital segments; a.p.^ acces- 

 sory plate. 



torted and the claspers were not visible, but the characters of the 

 penis and forceps are sufficiently distinctive to inake the recognition 

 of the species easy. 



BEETLES COLLECTED ON A DEAD BLACK OAK IN 

 VIRGINIA. 



By Wirt Robinson, 



West Point, N. Y. 



In the Entomological News for March, 1905, Mrs. Slosson gave 

 an account of the insects found in an old gumbo-limbo log at Miami, 

 Florida, and in the Journal of the New York Entomological So- 

 ciety for June, 191 2, Messrs. Davis and Leng gave a list of the in- 

 sects which they took upon a recently felled pine at Cleveland, Florida. 



During the past summer I was fortunate enough to discover near 

 my home in Virginia a dead black oak with a large insect population 

 and it may prove of interest to contrast the following list of my cap- 

 tures with those mentioned above. 



The locality is Buckingham County on James River about 100 

 miles west of Richmond. The level and fertile bottom land on both 

 sides of the river is under cultivation, but the steeper bordering hill- 

 sides are in many places wooded. 



