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the States during Autumn. Occasionally Podabrus piniphilus 

 may be found in the same localities as the Athous, but not in such 

 large numbers. Far back in the woods but little can be found, 

 except Pterostichus castaneus, and this only in small numbers, 

 the growth of moss being so rank as to greatly obstruct search, 

 and by it any logs that may chance to lie on the ground are soon 

 bound down so lightly as to defy efforts to move them. Aphodius 

 aletitus occurred once or twice in the first, also an Eros of a 

 species not yet determined. 



Experience proved it more profitable to set traps for certain 

 kinds of beetles rather than to go after them in their almost in- 

 accessible haunts. With an eye, therefore, to the capture of such 

 species as live in carrion, I piled up a great heap of carcasses of 

 birds in a little thicket a few feet from my cabin-door, every day 

 looking them over carefully and sifting the soil on which they lay, 

 that nothing might escape. The results were far above what I 

 had hoped, numerous species of Staphylinidae being thus obtained 

 in large numbers, also many Cercyon fulvipennis, some C. adum- 

 bratum, Choleva egena, Ptilium cohimbianum, and occasionally 

 other Trichopterygidae. Taking into account the seeming dearth 

 of Coleopterous life on the island, the number of specimens taken 

 in this way was really surprising. 



Little in the way of wood- or leaf-eating beetles was seen on 

 the island, though careful search was made for them. A couple 

 of specimens of Opsimus quadrilineatus were found, one of them 

 under the wharf at Wrangel, the other resting on a fence, and a 

 single dead Phymatodes was taken on a window. Not a single 

 Chrysomelid was secured, and beating trees yielded only two 

 specimens of a Magdalis. Two Hylobiini were taken from low 

 sprouts. But little can be said of the insect fauna of the place as 

 regards the other orders. Hymenoptera were scarce, Lepidop- 

 tera by no means common, and Diptera numerous only in indi- 

 viduals. A large species of Dragon-fly was the chief representa- 

 tive of the Neuroptera, while of Orthoptera there seemed to be a 

 total lack. The few Hymenoptera that were taken were mostly 

 Humble-bees, captured around the blossoms of white clover. 



Having spent several days on the island I determined to make 

 a trip to the mainland, and engaged, for the purpose, a white 

 trapper and an Alaskan Indian, intending to send them after 

 mammals while I employed my own time collecting insects. We 



