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caruhiis is spoken of as "' blue '"' or "■bluish.'" 1 have captured forty or fifty 

 specimens of this beetle, and I never saAV one that was not of a beautiful light- 

 green shade with a texture as of silk. If, however, a spet-imen remains too long in 

 the cyanide bottle, it will turn to a dull bluish colour, loiing all the lustre of its 

 surface. Again, Antkopliilax malacliiticus is really a rich and glittering green; it 

 has a metallic lustre which reflects yellow and.copper at certain angles, but I can 

 find no trace of the " blue shade " of printed descriptions. 



On June 24th a trip to the west edge of the '' Wood of Desire " yielded me two 

 specimens of Leptura pedalis; a unique specimen captured on the same shrub (a 

 large bush of alternate-leaved dogwood) in 1916 had been my one and only hint of 

 the insect's presence in the neighborhood; it was on this 'date and on thi; shrub 

 that I captured my last Microclytus gihhulus of the season. 



Work and weather prevented further records till July 2n;l. On that day 

 (luring a motor trip west of Chemong I visited a steep hill crowned with basswoods, 

 and while examining the foliage of one of the biggest ol those I captured a specimen 

 of Iloplosla nubila, which roused me to a vigorous search in the hopp of more. 

 Presently on a dead branch jutting from the lower trunk I captured a second; I 

 then got over the fence into an open field so as to be on the sunny side of the tree; 

 on the fence I captured three more specimens, and finally located n dead limb of 

 basswood lying high and dry on a bank of field stone under the tree; here Hoplosia 

 was evidently breeding and I had most fortunately come jump with the hour of 

 emergence. I captured altogether some twenty-five specimens on this limb and 

 on rails of the fence beside it. A few days later I took six more at thj same place 

 and also captured about ten in other places. In the limb I found several larvaj 

 and an imago in the act of emerging. There seems no doubt that Hoplosia nuhila's 

 favorite food is dead basswood, and its tunnels are all near the surface, within or 

 just lielow the inner bark. Several of my captures were made on newly felled 

 basswood; it is probably here that ovipositing first take? plac ', and then, perhaps, 

 the colony that emerges pairs and oviposits on the home-tree. An interesting 

 observation was afforded by the capture of one specimen on a newly fallen maple ; 

 last season I took one on fresh fallen beech. Beech and basswood only are men- 

 tioned iir Blatchley as hosts of Hoplosia nuhila. 



July 2nd was altogether a phenomenal day in my entomological year. Late 

 in the afternoon on a " brush-head " of dead hemlock thrown on to a snake fence as 

 top rail, I captured two strange weevils; tliey were several feet away from one 

 another, both on the main stem ; on minute examination they proved to be male and 

 female : the male was 5 mm. long and its antennas were about three-quarters the 

 body length; the female was 6 mm. long and its antennae only two-fifths the body. 

 The insect was an anthribid, with a white snout, white scutellum, broad white 

 patch near the elytra base, and a dainty little device in fawn-coloured pubescence on 

 the thorax, shaped like a miniature fleur-de-lys or trefoil, otherwise the insect was 

 almost uniformly black, not shining, but dull and rough ; it proves to be Gonotropis 

 gihhosus, an insect sni generis and of great rarity. 



From the end of June I kept my eye open especially for Lamiifiids of the 

 Acanthoderini group. In 1916 I had secured quite a range of species on poplar, 

 and an equally wide range had been reported to me as occurring on sumach; as the 

 two ranges only partly coipcide,-I was anxious to get personal corroboration of both 

 records this year. 



I found Hyperplatys emerging as early as July 2nd from felled or dying 

 ]ioplar, and a few days later it became quite common, especially on balm of gilead. 

 Two specimens, also, of what appears to be Liopiis variegatus were captured on 



