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go on to Dresden in the morning where I hoped to be able 



to secure a sufficient and 

 much need supply of 

 small vials into which the 

 Clerids could be placed 

 as collected. 



INVESTIGATIONS IN SAXONY. 



I left Strassburg at 

 noon on Sept. 1st and ar- 

 rived in Dresden,. Sax- 

 ony, via Frankfort and 

 Leipzig in the evening of 

 the same day. Here I ob- 

 tained the desired collect- 

 ing material,and the next 

 day proceeded to Meis- 

 sen, where I arrived at 

 3 p. M., Sept. 2d. I soon 

 found Director Schaufuss 

 at his museum, and we 

 made arrangements to 



make an excursion into the forests the next day. In company 

 with Mr. Schaufuss and one of the artists from the King's Porce- 

 lain Works, who is also an Entomologist, we made an early start 

 on the morning of Sept. 3d, and entered the King's forest near 

 Moritzburg, where, after obtaining permission from the authori- 

 ties, we commenced a vigorous search for Clerids. No broken 

 or injured trees occurred here as in the Hagenau forest, but ex- 

 amples of pine trees of various sizes were found which had died 

 within the last twelve months. In the bark of the first one of 

 these trees examined, both larvae and adults of the desired in- 

 sect were found. The bark had been removed from the lower 

 portion of the trunks of the greater number of standing dead 

 trees for the purpose of destroying the bark beetles. Therefore, 

 it was onlyjwhere the work had not been thorough, and a portion 

 of the bark had been lefton the base of the trunk that we were 



Fig. XXXVII. Street in cultivated pine 

 forest: near Hagenau, Germany. 



