[September 1884. BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM. SOC. VOL. VIL. 77 
Brachys tesselata was remarkably abundant on scrub oak at Manly, 
N.C. Manly is a village in the heart of the turpentine district occupy- 
ing a clearing in the pine forests. The oaks have sprung up wherever 
the pines have been destroyed by being cut for their sap. The species 
seemed to be very local and I did not find a single specimen elsewhere. * 
I captured one specimen ef Ze/racha virginica at Cheraw in a rather 
curious way. It had rained heavily during the day and the streets were 
rivers. I was picking my way to the depot when I saw this specimen 
running quite frantically about the roots of an old oak. It is said to be 
nocturnal in habits and had been drowned out of some hiding place. 
Elaphrus ruscarius | found in numbers on Staten Island this spring. 
A new railroad has been projected and carried as far as grading the 
track which at a point about a mile from Richmond runs through the 
woods. The Llaphrus were sunning themselves on this track. Many 
good things were taken in the trees cut down; among them several Cu- 
cujes clavipes. 
LEpicauta convulvuliand E. strigosa were very abundant near Sanford, 
N. C., on a wild Convulvulus. I did not find either elsewhere. Near 
Charlotte I found a few specimens of Rhyssematus lineaticollis upon it. 
All of these were eating the flower itself. 
In a patch of woods known as ‘‘Blood root Valley”, last winter 
several specimens of Cymindis americanus were taken for the first time on 
Staten Island: Péerostichus superciliosus was also taken; one specimen. 
Cuas. W. Lene. 
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During the latter part of July and early in August I collected at 
Manchester, Vt.; but with scarcely half my usual success. Lepidoptera 
could scarcely be found at all during the day, so Coleoptera only were 
sought. Beating and sweeping proved so unproductive that they were 
abandoned in disgust. Search in decayed logs yielded a few specimens 
of Avemelus cavus in an ant’s nest. The majority of specimens were found 
at One point in the nest in a comparatively solid portion of the log, and 
near to the midst of the colony. 
* In precisely similar situations on Cape Cod, many hundreds of B. ovata and 
B, aerosa were taken. J. B.S. 
