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not only in scraping together material that time is saved, but 

 also in the facilities offered for examining the catch. When 

 sufficient material is in the net, pick out the large specimens, 

 raise the net up and tip it half over, so that the sun will shine 

 in, and, if possible, the wind will blow through it. The water 

 will immediately drain off, and the small beetles will hasten to 

 leave the drying debris and hurry to the edge of the net, 

 where they pass under the eye of the collector, who easily 

 picks out any he desires, and the rest walk out over the edge. 

 Persons who have never used a wire net have no conception of 

 the time saved and the amount of w^aste and material which 

 can be passed upon by its use, and a net once made will last 

 a long time and stand a deal of rough work. Some minute 

 .species pass through the meshes and are easily picked off 

 outside. 



One .species of Liodes and about thirty of Staphylinidae were 

 turned up, while the Cocinellidae were well represented, and a 

 few interesting varieties occurred. The Endomychidse gave 

 six species, among them Phymaphora pjilchclla New. My first 

 specimen of Georyssiis pusillus Lee. was picked up on the river 

 bank. A few good species of Nitidulidae and Histeridse oc- 

 curred, among them one of Saprinus fitchii Mars, on sand on 

 the river bank. I .suspect this species of living on the sand 

 or under debris on the water's edge, but the closest search 

 failed to turn up a .second specimen. In past years I have 

 taken great numbers of S. estriatus Lee. on sand under debris 

 on the beaches of Great Salt Lake, Utah. The Buprestidae 

 showed in seven or eight species, among them two examples 

 of Piecilonota thureura Say on poplar ; it is probably common 

 earlier in the season. Alxjut eight or nine species of Elater 

 were taken, among them a pair of Cnpio/npiiKs pcdoralis Say 

 in sand on the edge of a brook. Scarabs and Longhorns were 

 sadly wanting, and tlie few that presented them.selves were 

 common. The Chry.somclidic were fairly represented in num- 

 ber of species, but not specimens. Tcnebrionidae were con- 

 spicuous by their absence, while tlie Rhyncophora showed up 

 a fine number of si)ccies and .some few good things, notably 

 a pair of Splcnopkorus found at the roots of water plants in a 

 dried- up lx)g-hole. 



