Feb., 03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 47 



It seems to have been a good season both here and at Marion 

 for Buprestidae. At Dover I took an example of Cinyra graci- 

 lipes Mels. (always rare here) on white oak, and saw numerous 

 examples of Chrysobothris azurea Lee. running in a particularly 

 impracticable tangle of brush and grapevine where I had only 

 a very few moments to vainly try for them. Later I saw the 

 same species at Marion, ^nd took also a specimen of Aetenodes 

 aeornis Say. 



My summer was, however, too much broken up to admit of 

 new explorations which I had planned at Marion. 



Some Entomological Notes* 



By F. F. Crkvecceur, Onaga, Kansas. 



In my experience in collecting insects, during the past dozen 

 years, I have made some observations or discoveries which I 

 have never seen in print, and as they may prove helpful or of 

 interest to others engaged in the same diversion, I herewith 

 give them. 



During the early summer months, when insect life is rich in 

 an abundance of species — many of which to amateurs will prove 

 to be new to their collection — one will have much success in 

 capturing an abundance of specimens, often replete with rare 

 forms, by beating the weeds, bushes, shrubs and low limbs of 

 trees on the leeward side of a grove or of the natural forest 

 along our streams, if a strong wind is blowing at the time. 

 In June I have taken many good things along the north side of 

 the timber when the wind was blowing so strongly from the 

 south that it was almost useless to look for anything on the 

 prairie or in the depths of the timber, where one would natu- 

 rally look for a rich fauna. A couple of years ago I took quite 

 a number of Ptosima gibbieollis in a grove of redbud trees stand- 

 ing along the north side of a cornfield, the bulk of the forest 

 being at the north, while the wind was blowing strongly from 

 that direction. The past summer I took a number of rare 

 species on the weeds fringing the north side of a small stream, 

 sparingly grown to trees, which runs nearly due east, the wind 

 being from the south when my captures were made. Here I 



