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C. bivittatus Melsh. C. planatus Lec. 
C. tarsalis Melsh. C. crassus Lec. 
C. copei Horn. C. rotundicollis Say. 
C. sulcicollis Say. 
Some of these are very rare, as C. cope. I have only seen two 
specimens. C. vernalis lives in the clay clinging to the roots of 
trees that have been uprooted by storms. It appears in March 
and April. March 23, 1902, I took what I think was its larve, by 
digging in the clay-covered roots of an upturned beech tree. Mrs. 
Braun found C. hamatus on the foliage of honey locust June 1, 
1902. 
ASAPHES. 
A. indistinctus Lec. A. memnonius Hbst. 
A. decoloratus Say. A. bilobatus Say. 
A. planatus Lec. 
MELANACTES. 
M. piceus De G. M. puncticollis Lec. 
PEROTHOPS. 
P. mucida Gyll. 
CEROPHYTUM. 
C. pulsator Hald. 
This last is one of the rarest known Elaters, as well as the most 
abberrant. Its pectinate antennz are very curious. But one speci- 
men has been taken here, and that was beaten from foliage, into 
an umbrella. I have in addition to the above many Elaters without 
names, some of them very fine ones. 
EROS CIbAE. 
DRAPETES. 
D. geminatus Say. D. quadripustulatus Bonw. 
THROSCUS. 
T. punctatus Bonv. T. chevrolati Bonv. 
T. constrictor Say. 
The monograph of the THROSCID by Bonvouloir, 18509, 
is inaccessible to most students. See Horn’s synopsis of N. A 
species. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., 1885, vol. x11, pp. 198-208. 
BURRS iD 
“Metallic Shiners.” 
This family is not very abundant here. They are most beautiful 
metallic insects. Some of the tropical species are really magnifi- 
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