THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



Cychrus letieicoUis. Male. 



Anthophilax hoffmanii. Male and female. 



NEW NORTH CAROLINA BEETLES 



DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY: EXPEDITION OF 1903. 



"H ROUGH provision made by Mr. Samuel V. Hoff- 

 man, the curator of the Department of Ento- 

 mology, Mr. William Beutenmuller, was enabled 

 to make a trip in May and June, 1903, to the 

 Black Mountains of North Carolina, in continua- 

 tion of the work of previous years. The unusual rains Avhich 

 prevailed during May prevented full success in the collection of 

 the characteristic species of the season, still about 7,000 speci- 

 mens were obtained. In the series there are many species not 

 before represented in the Museum collections and some that were 

 new to science. Many scientific data were obtained for use in 

 the preparation of the contemplated work on the Insect Fauna 

 of the Black Mountains, North Carolina, and adjacent Ranges. 

 Some of the new and the rarer previously known species ob- 

 tained on the present expedition were made the basis of an 

 article which was published in the Museum Bulletin during Sep- 

 tember last. One of the new forms was named Anthophilax 

 Jioffiuanu, or Hoffman's longhom beetle, in honor of the late 

 Very Rev. E. A. Hoffman, whose interest in entomology and 

 whose friendship for the ^Museum greatly enriched the Depart- 



