2o6 Natural History Bulletin. 



Along the outskirts of the forest, flying slowly around, may 

 be seen AtJious fcrruginosits Esch., the most plentiful Elaterid 

 in this part of Alaska; any disturbance of the vegetation or 

 even the sound of footsteps seemed to start them up and they 

 flew aimlessly around, often alighting on my clothes or hands 

 and easily captured. When a log, deeply imbedded in moss 

 and grass, was turned over, these insects would come out 

 from resting places on or near the ground, running up the 

 stems of plants until a favorable place for starting was reached, 

 when they took wing. Occasionally a Corymhites tarsalis 

 Melsh., or a C cai'iciniis Germ., might be seen with the Athous 

 and PodahriLs ■piniphlhis Esch., frecjuents the same situations. 

 In the deep forest but little could be found, the first half day's 

 work yielding only six specimens, all of Ptcrostichns castaneus 

 Dej.; these occurred under pieces of v\-ood in a path. Care- 

 ful search among the deep moss proved fruitless. 



The most productive plan of collecting proved to be set- 

 ting baits for carrion beetles, and with the object in view of 

 collecting such insects I piled up, in a hltle patch of brush a 

 few yards from my cabin door, all the bodies of birds whose 

 skins had been utilized for museum purposes. Every da}'- this 

 heap of bodies was looked over carefully and all the loose soil 

 beneath taken up and sifted. In this way I managed to get 

 many good things, numbers of Staphylinidse, some Chohva 

 egena Horn., Ccrcyon fiilvifenne Mann., C. adumbratum 

 INIann., Pt'dium coliimhiamim Matth., and occasionall}'' other 

 Trichopterygidfe. The Longicorns and Chrysomelid^ evi- 

 dently did not thrive on the island; two specimens of Opsimus 

 qiiadrilineatiis Mann., and a single Phymatodes constituted the 

 entire representation in the former family while the latter did 

 not appear at all. Beating trees was tried but the onl}^ result 

 proved to be Magdalis cenescens Lcc, and this ver}- rare. 



Little can be said here regarding the other orders of insects, 

 a list of which will very probably be published later by the 

 authorities of the United States National ?.Iuseum. Lepi- 

 doptera were not common, neiiher were Hymenoptera though 



