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looked over. Perhaps some of the readers of the Review can 

 name this beetle. A few years ago I found over forty of them in a 



Beetles feeding on ripe blackberries. 



roundish patch, closely crowded together on the trunk of an oak- 

 tree; they were apparently partaking of the sap that was 

 escaping from .some injury the tree had received. 



