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it hibernates in rotten wood and hollow trees. I have taken as 
many as twenty-five under bark of a single tree and on one day 
took as many as one hundred specimens. Cychrus irregularis is 
rare and I collected only twenty-five examples in the coves near 
the base of the mountains in June, July and August. I have also 
taken it on the summit. Cychrus bicarinatus is almost as common 
as andrewsi and probably also hibernates. It is found from June — 
to late in October and is most abundant in September and Oc- 
tober. C. canadensis is not common. This species prefers places 
close to the ground under chips of wood and under bark of small 
fallen trees. It is found from the base to the summit of the - 
mountains and is most abundant in the balsams, with eneicollis. 
I collected one female of canadensis in the Swananoa Mountains, 
N. C., which differs in color from the purple Black Mountain 
form by being almost black with only slight traces of the purple 
color, and it is very likely that an entirely black form will be 
found when this region is explored. Cychrus elevatus form 
tenebrosus I obtained in open woods on the edges of the slopes and 
in the valley from June to October. I am. fully convinced that 
other new forms of Cychrus will be found in the mountains and 
peaks in western North Carolina, Georgia and eastern Tennessee, 
especially in the Great Smoky Mountains, which have never been 
explored entomologically. All Cychrus feed on snails, which 
abound in the region and may be collected by the thousands. I 
have also found C. andrews: feeding on catbriar (Smilax) berries 
which in some way got under loose bark of a fallen tree. I found 
almost all of my Cychrus under loose bark and only a few under 
stones. 
STUDIES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 
By R. P. Dow, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Lesser INSECT MENTIONS. 
After considering the many grasshoppers, locusts, flies, wasps, 
bees mentioned in the Old Testament, little text is left for the re- 
maining dozen insects of somewhat lesser. economic importance. 
Of the identification of the nemalah with the ant there can be no 
