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Alsophila pometaria caterpillars were nearly as abundant as 

 they were in 191 3 and were being devoured by Calosoma frigi- 

 dum and Calosoma willcoxi. The same species of caterpillar, a 

 day or two later was, found near Nessequogue, about 20 miles 

 to the westward, where it was doing considerable damage to the 

 trees. 



The bug, Tetyra hipunctata was in considerable numbers at 

 Wading River on young pitch pines; in 191 3 only a dead one 

 was found on the beach. 



The grasshopper Eritettix carinatus was as usual in the field 

 near the large boulders, where we also collected the butterfly 

 Euptoieta claudia, pointed out by Mr. Nicolay. 



The usually rare beetle Nicagus ohscurus, was if anything more 

 common on the up-beach than in 1913, but Cremastochilus harrisii 

 was not so plentiful. The beetles Cychrus lecontei, Elytroleptus 

 floridanus, Phymatodes varius, Phyntatodes am^nus and 

 Acmceops discoidea were collected. 



The little mole-cricket Tridactylus terminalis was found along 

 the shore of Deep Pond as in 1913. 



On June i, Centrodera picta was beaten from a chestnut oak at 

 Nissequogue, and on July 26 several Cicindela marginata were 

 found alonsr the banks of Wading River. 



NOTES ON COLEOPTERA. 



Anent local captures possibly having a bearing on the southerly 

 entension of a Boreal fauna or northerly of the Floridian and 

 Carolinian, Norman S. Easton, of Fall River, Mass., writes : 



Malachius aeneus has been here a number of years ; my local 

 record specimen bears the date May 15, 1904, and it is now 

 common on dandelion blossoms in the spring. 



Trechus chalyheus, or what I call by that name, is found occa- 

 sionally in sifting in late fall or early spring. 



I have never taken Strategus antceus, though there is a Rhode 

 Island record for it. 



Canthydrus puncticollis, Ancyronyx variegatus, Ceutorhyncus 



