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There was little of interest in the umbrella but on searching over 

 the material on the blanket I found at the bottom of it two weevils, 

 one rather large one, Conotrachelus serpentinus Boh., not uncommon 

 in the hammock on the red bay, Pcrsea horbonia L., the other a much 

 smaller uniform brown species which I did not recognize, but as it 

 was then late I made no farther search for additional specimens. 

 Being very tired that evening when I assorted the afternoon's catch, 

 I gave little attention to the weevil, but placed it in a capsule with 

 an accession number and for the corresponding note wrote : " Cur- 

 culid new to collection ?, beating in Skinner's Hammock near big 

 maple." 



Four days later, February 15, I was back at the hammock, one 

 of my objects being to obtain if possible additional specimens of the 

 weevil. I did not know from just what I had beaten it, but I knew 

 the spot and thought the bunch of debris in the vine, which was twice 

 as large as a bushel basket, a likely abiding place, so I tackled it the 

 first thing. My surmise was correct, for after two beatings, during 

 which I knocked down half the bunch, I had found eighteen of the 

 w^eevils, partly in the umbrella and partly on the blanket, which I 

 was careful to spread out to catch the discarded material. The 

 beetles were at all times very difficult to see, being almost the color 

 of the dead leaves and twigs and feigning death for a long time. 

 When one of them finally concluded to " come to " it moved more 

 slowly than any weevil I have ever known, and it was only by watch- 

 ing for motion, much as one does when using a sifting net, that it 

 was discerned. 



That evening I took my copy of the " Rhynchophora of N. E. 

 America," and in a few minutes discovered that I had captured a 

 real prize, it being none other than Hormops ahdnccns Lee, de- 

 scribed^ forty-two years before from a single specimen taken at 

 Capron, Fla., by Hubbard and Schwarz and otherwise known by 

 only one other specimen, the latter beaten by Schwarz from a dead 

 branch on Plummer's Island, Md. It was from this Maryland speci- 

 men in the U. S. National Museum collection that the description in 

 the " Rhynchophora of N. E. America " was in part drawn up. 



The next day, February 16, found me back at the hammock, deter- 

 mined to make a " clean-up." I first went over the debris which I 



1 In "The Rhynchoi)hora of America North of Mexico," 1876, 321. 



