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out from cracks in the sidewalks, under door-sills, and in fact 

 from any place where they can squeeze themselves away. Then 

 the fun begins, and, as I go down the street with my biggest col- 

 lecting bottle slung on my wrist and begin picking up the ' ' bugs, ' ' 

 I am a centre of attraction. Next, two policemen proceed to 

 "collar" me, and it takes half an hour of explanation to con- 

 vince them that I am neither an incendiary nor a fugitive from the 

 State asylum, and that my bottle (because, forsooth, it is marked 

 " poison") is not a deadly weapon. At length they are satisfied 

 though, and let me off, and I filled my bottle every night. 



Lephira makes a brave show in these Northern regions, and all 

 the following occur on flowers: L. obliterata, soror, plagifera, 

 subargentata, convexa, canadensis, erythroptera, Icztifica, quad- 

 ri/him, chrysocoma, crassicornis, crassipes and scripta, most of 

 them rather rare. 



Timarcha intricata I found always under logs in moss. Whether 

 it feeds on this or not I cannot .say. Occurs at Portland, Tacoma 

 and Coeur d' Alene from early June until the beginning of August. 

 Chrysomela exclamationis and conjunda are common in Idaho 

 (Pocatello) on Helianthus, and C. elegans on willows at various 

 points. C. lunata I found on rosebushes mostly, though they 

 also appear on grasses, sunflowers, asters, and even poison ivy. 

 I doubt if they eat any of these but the roses, however. 



The Tenebrionidae I leave for a separate paper, and will close 

 with a few remarks on the Rhynchophora of the region. Thri- 

 comigiis luteus is found in western Wyoming under logs and on 

 rose-bushes. Sitones is everywhere, but I am not yet able to 

 satisfactorily separate my series. Plinthodes t^niatus I took 

 under logs, and the same is true of Trichalophus didymns. The 

 former species I took at Tacoma and Victoria, the other is found, 

 though rarely, over the entire northwestern corner of the United 

 States, and as far East as Mullan, Mon. It seems to be quite 

 variable in size and color. 



Macrops also occurs over almost the whole region, though I 

 took none at Victoria. At Portland I took M. humilis'm a swamp 

 around the roots of grass, and on the plains of Wyoming, Mon- 

 tana and Nebraska I found M. vitticollis, tenebrosus, ulkei and 

 obscnrellus more or less abundant. 



Sphenophorus is abundant in the native grasses all through the 

 central region from Nebraska to eastern Oregon, and will doubt- 



