Vol. XXvi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 269 



List of G>Ieoptera G>IIected from Tanglefoot. 

 By C. A. Frost, Framingham, Mass. 



The following species of beetles were taken from bands of 

 tanglefoot on two large white oak trees in Sherbom, Massa- 

 chusetts. These trees are situated in a pasture at the foot of 

 a wooded hill and are partly surrounded by a sparse growth of 

 hardwoods which are replaced on the east by alders diat extend 

 to an open meadow a few hundred feet away. 



The results of the first visit on September 27th were so sur- 

 prising that a second trip was made to secure any small speci- 

 mens that had been overlooked. On the shaded side of one 

 of the trees next the swamp most of the spedroens were badly 

 moulded and were not removed at all. while a few other speci- 

 mens looked as though they had been pecked by birds. These 

 two trees, which are nearly three feet in diameter, were banded 

 about the first of June so that most of the material must have 

 been entangled for many weeks and some of it for three months. 

 ^fost of the specimens were dtig out as mere gobs of tangle- 

 foot and dropped into the alcohol bottle where diey remained 

 about five hours. They were then found to be very clean ex- 

 cept for a whitish substance on a few of them. The large ones 

 were also relaxed enough to pin while the legs and antennae 

 of the small specimens could be drawn out by the careful use 

 of a fine brush. 



The number of rare species is the most remarkable fact in 

 this list for. in the fourteen years of my collecting in Massa- 

 chusetts, I have never before taken Cimyra gracUipes, Fornax 

 calcfatus, Calorama nigritulum. Dorcatoma drrsdmsis. Abstru- 

 lia tesseUata. Canifa pusilla^ Helodes thoracica or Heterachtes 

 quadrimacttlatus, and but single specimens of Entomophthat- 

 mus rufioius and Caliidium arrnim; L. cava, S. punctatus. C. 

 scxsignata, C. bicolor, and H. umfasciata have been rxrnding- 

 ly rare. 



On my return from the second visit to the trees (October 

 3, 1914). I examined some red oaks that had been banded with 

 tai^fjlefoot in 191 1 or 1912 and took therefrom single speci- 

 mens of Bostrychus armiger Lee. and Notiolophus semistriatus 



