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in the season, three less than half grown being captured July 8, nine about 

 half grown [uK- iq and two nearly full grown Jvily 27. This species is pre- 

 daceous and is therefore beneficial. It has a wide tlistribution, having been 

 recorded from as far west as Nebraska and from a number of the Eastern 

 and Middle States. 



Camptobrochis grandis Uhl. 



This species was somewhat common on hard pine at Karner during 



lune and July igoi, though on account of its timidity and rapid movements 



comparatively few specimens were taken. The adult insect 



>5r^'7^|RV. is about '^ inch long, oval in outline and inconspicuously 



^ ■*'"* marked with brown and yellowish brown. This species has 



been recorded by Dr Howard as sucking the eggs of the 



imported elm leaf beetle, G a 1 e r u c e 1 1 a 1 u t e o 1 a Mull., 



and it is very probably a predaceous form living on some 



of the weaker insects infesting the plants on which it occurs. 



Mr E. P. VanDuzee lists this species from the Muskoka 



lake district and states that it is apparently nocturnal in 



habit, since several were captured while flying around a 



candle at camp. Some of these individuals, he states, are 



extremely dark, even approaching an almost uniform piceous 



black. It has been listed from Iowa by Professor Osborn, from Coloratlo 



by Messrs Gillette and Baker, and probalily lias an extended distribution 



in .\merica. 



Anthrenus castaneae Melsh. 



An oval, black, golden specked beetle about < ,2 inch in length, occurs on blossoms 

 (if alder and cornus. 



This species w\as taken at Poughkeepsie on cornus blossoms Jime 3, 

 1903, and has also Ijeen met with on alder blossoms at Newport by Mr 

 Young. The insect is remarkable because of the triangular shaped, 

 crinkled scales covering its body, by which it may easily be distinguished 

 from A. m u seoru m Linn., with which it has probably been confused. 



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Fig. iti3 A 11 t ii r e 11 u s 

 c a s t a 11 e ;i e, en- 

 larged ; rt, ^, scales 

 tiiiich eiiLirged (orig- 

 ill.,!) 



