[54:? J INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, J 249 



This is an interesting addition to oar 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 represents 

 tion in the Atlantic faunal region." Horn. 



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

 Point, New Jersey. 



BLEDIUS CORDATUS (Say.) (p. 462.) 



Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., vol. iv, p. 461. 



This small species occurred in considerable abundance near Beesley 7 & 

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

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

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

 opening of its burrows, which are much smaller than those of the 

 following species. 



" This species is somewhat variable in the form of the ely tral 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 sen tell am and along the basal 

 margin." Horn. 



BLEDIUS PALLIPENNIS (Say.) (p. 402.) 



Journal Acad. Nat. Sci., PLilad., 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. 464.) 



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



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

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



PlIALERIA 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 Menemsha Bight, on Martha's Vineyard, October, 

 1871, by Dr. Edward Palmer. 



