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scydm^.nid/e.^ 



Euconnus clavipes Say and bicolor Lee. — No particular search has 

 been made for these species, and hence only a few specimens of each 

 have been taken, occurring under overturned tufts of grass. Dr. 

 Hamilton has found these more frequently under stones. They are 

 widely distributed species. 



E. cavipennis Cas. — Occurs here in rotten wood, but is not com- 

 mon. It has been more abundantly found in the same material by 

 Rev. Marcellus Rettger, in Carrolltown, Cambria County, situated in 

 the Alleghany Mountains. The type, in Major Casey's collection, is 

 the largest of the specimens I have seen. 



E. accultus Cas. — Occurs in situations similar to those frequented 

 by the last species, and not in greater abundance, unless one chances 

 to find a colony. Even stray specimens are rarely taken. It is found 

 on the Chestnut Ridge, and in its valleys ; also in Cambria County 

 (Rettger). 



E. affinis Cas. — This is the Scydmaenus clavatus Let:, of Dr. Ham- 

 ilton's list. It is our most abundant Ettcoiniiis, occurring almost 

 everywhere in western Pennsylvania, and at all seasons, in decaying 

 wood, and other vegetable matter of all descriptions. 



E. sp.? — A single specimen, running near debilis Cas., was sifted 

 from a heap of decaying weeds, June 6, 1896. 



Pycnophus rasus Lee. — Widely distributed, but a rare capture to all 

 collectors. Here a single specimen was obtained for me, in a chest- 

 nut stump, on the Chestnut Ridge, by Rev. Richard Kraus. It oc- 

 curs in New Jersey, Iowa, Kansas and Canada. 



Connophron oreophilum Cas. — Not abundant ; all my specimens 

 were obtained on the Chestnut Ridge, under decaying leaves and 

 weeds. 



C. fossiger Z^r.— Has not occurred here yet, nor have I obtained 

 it from Cambria County. But Dr. Hamilton has taken it not uncom- 

 monly under stones near Allegheny City, and his identification of the 

 species is correct. 



C. clavicorne Cas. — Widely distributed, and not rare in rotten 

 wood, or under dead leaves. 



C. luteipes Cas. — There are but a few specimens of this species in 

 my collection, one of them a cotype of Mr. Casey's naming. It has 

 occurred here. 



' Notes bv P. lerome Schmitt. 



