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he devoured part of a watermelon, the rind of which he hid tinder 

 the pile. When I came back some days later I picked up the mass 

 to take it away, thinking of the song: Everybody works but 

 Father. 



It was swarming with insects. I ran for a cyanide bottle and 

 got busy. And, have been busy ever since. I have identified ii8 

 species of Coleoptera and have about 25 still to identify. The 

 pile would not fill a wheelbarrow and the locality is one of the 

 built-up suburbs of Cincinnati. The weather was very hot and 

 dry, so I kept the pile moist, particularly beneath it. A study of 

 what was taking place beneath that hay is quite interesting, and 

 would cause an advocate of brotherly love to sit up and take 

 notice. The predaceous species were devouring the weaker ones. 

 Several species of ants were always busy and the ground was 

 honeycombed with the burrows of various larvae. I have never 

 before found the curious Nitidulid beetle, Oxycnemns histrina 

 Lee. except in a " stink horn fungus." It is one of nature's 

 mysteries where this species lives when there are none of these 

 fungi growing. Let a warm rain occur and these odd but ill 

 smelling plants come up in one night. Tear them open and most 

 likely there will be some of these beetles inside. Pleurophorus 

 ccesus Panz. is said to live in the excrement of Passa?us cornuttis, 

 but many occurred under the grass and some of them had so 

 recently hatched that I believe they emerged from the soft ground 

 under the pile. There certainly were no Passalus anywhere near. 

 Below is a list of the species so far identified : 



Notiophilus seinistriatus Say. 

 Dyschirius globulosus Say. 

 Pterostichits permnndus Say. 

 Evarthrus sodalis Lee. 

 Bembidium versicolor Lee. 

 Amara angustata Say. 

 Scarites subterraneus Fab. 

 Stenolophus conjunctus Say. 



rotundatus Lee. 



ochropesus Say. 

 Cratacanthus dubius Beauv. 

 Agonoderus partiarhis Say. 



pallipes Fab. 

 Bradycellus rupestris Say. 



Anisodactylus harrisi Lee. 

 Harpalus nitidulus Chd. 



pennsylvaniciis DeG. 

 Crypto pleuruni vagans Lee. 

 Cercyon prcetextwrn, Say. 

 pygmccus 111. 

 naviculare Zimm. 

 lugubris Payk. 

 pubescens Lee. 

 Falagria dissecta Er. 

 Aleochara brachypterus Fauv. 

 pleuralis Casey. 

 bimaculafa Grav. 

 Actobius sobrinus Er. 



