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mountains, near Aberschwiller in Loraine, (Lothringen), I felt 

 confident from my knowledge of the habits of American ex- 

 amples of the family of insects to which the most desired species 

 belong, that here I would meet with some success. 



INVESTIGATIONS NEAR HAGENAU. 



The Desired Beneficial Insect Found. 



The next morning, August 28th, I proceeded to Hagenau 

 where I arrived at 11 A. M. and at once went to the office of 

 Oberforester Strahmeyer, and informed him of the object of my 

 mission, expressing at the same time, a desire to visit a section 

 of the forest indicated by Oberforester Eichhoff. Oberforester 

 Strahmeyer manifested his interest in the undertaking and a 

 desire to give encouragement and assistance by detailing his 

 son and a forest official to accompany me. After lunch, we en- 

 gaged a cab and proceeded into the forest which was entered a 

 few miles out of the city limits. We had only proceeded a few 

 hundred yards along the street which led into it when I ob- 

 served some trees which had been broken by snow during the 

 previous winter. Upon making an examination of these trees I 

 found that the bark was infested with bark beetles and the first 

 cut I made into the outer bark revealed a larva of the desired 

 insect ( Clerus formicarius.) Further search revealed an adult, 

 and in a short time we were engaged in collecting all stages of 

 the insect. Even the driver impelled by our enthusiasm, armed 

 with his jack knife, proceeded to dig into the bark for the 

 "kafer" ( beetle.) Within two or three hours we had secured 49 

 examples of the Clerid 12 adults, 35 larvae and 2 pupae. In ad- 

 dition to these, 50 cocoons and 2 adults of a Braconid parasite of 

 the bark beetles were taken. After making some further ob- 

 servations as to suitable localities in which to prosecute our 

 search on the morrow, we returned to Hagenau well pleased 

 with the results of the first few hours' work on my second day 

 in Germany. 



The next morning we started out to make a general survey 

 of that portion of the forest in which the broken timber occur- 



