[543] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 249 



This is an interesting addition to our insect fauna. Its occurrence 

 has been looked for on the ground of the occurrence of a species on the 

 Pacific Coast, for, as a rule, (rapidly losing its exceptions,) any genus 

 represented in Europe and on the Pacific Coast will have a representa 

 tion in the Atlantic faunal region.&quot; Horn. 



This species was found burrowing in sand, between tides, at Becsley s 

 Point, New Jersey. 



BLEDIUS CORDATUS (Say.) (p. 4G2.) 



Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., vol. iv, p. 4C1. 



This small species occurred in considerable abundance near Beesley s 

 Point. It forms its small burrows in the loose sand at and just below 

 high-water mark, in company with Talorchestia longicornis. ScyphaceUa 

 arenicola SMITH, &c. It throws up a small heap of sand around the 

 opening of its burrows, wh ch are much smaller than those of the 

 following species. 



&quot; This species is somewhat variable in the form of the elytral dark 

 spot. The elytra are pale testaceous or nearly white in color, and nor 

 mally with a cordate space of brownish color, and with the apex in front. 

 This spot may become a narrow median fusiform space, or be divided 

 so that the suture is pale ; the spot frequently becomes larger by the 

 apex of the cordate spot, extending to the scutellum and along the basal 

 margin.&quot; Horn. 



BLEDIUS PALLIPENNIS (Say.) (p. 462.) 



Journal Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. iii, p. 155. 



Shores of Great Egg Harbor, near Beesley s Point, common, burrow 

 ing perpendicularly in moist sand considerably below high-water mark. 

 The holes are round, with a small heap of sand around the orifice. This 

 species is also found far inland. (Horn.) 



HETEROCERUS UNDATUS Melsheimer. (p. 404.) 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. ii, p. 98. 



Beesley s Point, burrowing in sand, between tides. This species 

 occurs also on the margins of inland streams. (Horn.) 



PHALERIA TESTACEA Say. 



Long s Expedition, vol. ii, p. 280. 



Somer s Point, on the shore of Great Egg Harbor, between tides. 



NEUROPTERA. 



MOLANNA, species undetermined, (p. 379.) 



This larva was found in a firm, straight, flattened, tapering tube, 

 made of grains of sand, and attached to the piles of a wharf, below 

 high-water mark, at Meneinsha Bight, on Martha s Vineyard, October, 

 1871, by Dr. Edward Palmer. 



