March, '02] entomological news. 83 



Notes on Certain Coleoptera. 



By L. E. Hood. 



At the request of an entomological friend, and armed with a 

 sketch map of the Harvard College grounds giving the localities 

 of certain trees that, in the years ago, were sadly infested with 

 Chrysoviela scalaris Lee. in all its stages, I made repeated visits 

 to Cambridge this season, hoping to secure living larvae and 

 imagos for scientific study. 



I searched carefully both on the college grounds and in the 

 vicinity without success. Not a single specimen was to be 

 seen, and seeing the futility of further search in this locality, I 

 next went to the Old Roxbury Cemetary in Roxbury, Mass., 

 where I have seen both the larvae and imagos of this Chryso- 

 melid so numerous that they were absolutely a nuisance. Here 

 I only secured a single adult, no signs of larvae being visible. 



Other localities in Medford, Maiden and Braintree, were 

 visited without success. 



I onl)'^ know of a single larva, that a local collector found in 

 Roxbury, having been seen this season in this neighborhood, 

 and I can only understand this remarkable scarcity of a species 

 usually so common, but as being the result of our cold wet 

 spring. 



All species of Coleoptera, with a few exceptions, have been 

 scarce this year, and in general the season is a failure as far as 

 collecting goes. 



Among other leaf-feeding beetles the same scarcity was ob- 

 servable, the only locality where I have met with any real 

 success in beating was in a swampy field near Braintree, Mass. , 

 where I collected the first week in July. 



In Mordellidae only two species were at all common, and 

 these not in the same proportion as in recent years. 



All species of Rhynchophora were rare, only half a dozen 

 species having been collected during the year, one of these, Eu- 

 rymyder fasciata Oliv. , I find high up on trees among fungus. 



In Cerambycidiae I have secured but few individuals, and 

 the spring catch of Carabidae was a total failure. 



The only species of Cincbidcla at all common was C. sexgiit- 



