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especially during- twilight, when many things were on the wing. 

 Of these the largest game was Ergates spiculatus, often seen fly- 

 ing slowly about the board piles and easily taken. The large 

 burrows in pine stumps bear witness to the larval habits of this 

 species. Under like circumstances were taken Pactopus honiii, 

 Carebora longula, Lasconotus servus, Ernobius sp., Hylastes 

 macer and H. longus. Our camp fire attracted numerous speci- 

 mens of Anelastes druryi, and occasionally a Polyphylla criniia; 

 I have never seen this species in the low country, its place there 

 being taken by P. lo-lineata, which is not rare at electric lights. 



Returning to camp one evening about sundown, I stopped to 

 examine a small alder which had been felled across the stream, 

 I had gathered a dozen or two of Pityophthorus p2ibipe7inis , 

 which had emerged from their burrows and were taking an even- 

 ing promenade, when, from the hole of one of the bark borers a 

 strange head appeared ; it belonged to that curious Cucujide, 

 Nartheciiis grandiceps, and diligent search resulted in the finding 

 of about a dozen of this very rare beetle. I know not what may 

 be the habits of this insect, but the circumstances strongly sug- 

 gest that it may be parasitic on the bark borer above mentioned. 

 On this same alder I found two or three Lascoyiotiis linearis, and 

 from a freshly-cut tree close by a little colony of Rhynchohcs 

 spretiis. Beneath a log partially imbedded in turf by the side 

 of the stream I discovered the headquarters of Hippodamia con- 

 vergens for this region; here, crowded together in places several 

 deep, were not less than ten thousand individuals; what can be 

 the signification of such a gathering? 



Space will not permit a detailed allusion to even half of the 

 species collected, nor is a complete list now possible, owing to 

 the difiiculty of identification; many, indeed, being undescribed. 



That this article may be of some value as indicating geograph- 

 ical distribution, I append as complete a list as possible of the 

 species not mentioned above : 



Cicindela 12-guttata Dej. . Bembidium iridescens Lee. 



Cychrus punctatus Lee. Tachys anthrax Lee. 

 Notiophilus semiopacus Esch. " audax Lee. 



Dyschirius gibbipennis Lee. Pterostichus ater Dej. 

 Schizogenius depressus Z^^. " castanipes i1i/^«. 



BenibidiLini erasum Lee. " occidentalis Dej. 



" longulus Lee. Amara scitula Zimni. 



" semistriatus Hald. " remotestriata Dej. 



