1899] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 175 



nette, Pa., was originally in my possession and is from Green 

 Ridge Mo. Am of the opinion this species does not occur in 

 southwestern Pennsylvania. 



C. viduus Pej. 



I have apparently been more fortunate than most collectors in 

 the captui-e of this species, yet all were taken in a small, re- 

 stricted locality at Baldwin's station. 



Several specimens have often been found very close together, as 

 many as four at one time under a stone about one foot in di- 

 ameter. It has often been a great pleasure to me to hold this 

 beautiful insect in my hand and admire its graceful form. 

 Though I have had as many as three specimens in my hands at 

 one time, it does not always happen that success i-ewards a 

 search for this species, having many times turned over so many 

 stones, logs, sticKs and bark that my back ielt broken from the 

 exertion ; on glancing backward over the route followed in the 

 vain search, it looked as if it had been struck by a cyclone 

 [ have held a live Cychrus viduus in mv hand whose head was 

 imbedded in the mouth of a shell of the large land snail, who 

 was so intent on bis occupation that transferring my hold from 

 him to the shell and letting him hang suspended did not inter- 

 fere with him in the least; he seemed so absorbed in the pro- 

 cess of teeding that continual maneuvering in this manner 

 failed to distract his attention from his prey. 

 The species is found here from April until the end of September. 



C guyoti Lee 



Thifi species is so rare that it is repi-esented in but few collec- 

 tions 



Prof. Jerome Schmitt,of St. Vincent, Pa., has a fine pair re- 

 ceived some years ago froni North Carolina. 

 As for as recorded, this species occurs only in the mountain re- 

 gions of that State. (A note concerning the above record will 

 be published in the September number.) 



C. ridingsii Bland . 



This very pretty little species, in appearance so much like a 

 diminutive C. andrewsii. has only been found at Uniontown 

 and Cresson, Pa., proving it to be a sti-ictly mountain species, 

 as is the case with C. canadensis. 



C. andrewsii Harr- 



The species is found here, though not so restricted as C. vidvu^, 

 nor found as often, yet the habits are similar. 

 This has only been taken from June 28th to September 14th and 

 does not seem to cover as louaf a perion as C. viduus. 

 In looking for CycArMS, I find wherever land snails are abun- 

 dant, some one of the species will be found. 

 Cychrus shoviXA always besought after iu damp, shady and 

 stonyplaces. During mv collecting experience of twenty years, 

 have never found anv snecies but C. lecontei hibernating. 



