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more muck removed with the same result, For two hours or longer I 
continued this, finding the beetles imbedded in the soft mud around the 
roots of grasses, Mydrophilus, Philhydrus, Hydrobius and Cercyon were 
principally represented, though an occasional Dyfscrd was found. Quite 
a large number of Aydrophilidve were taken, including Felophorus and 
Fydrochus . £3 Poke C. H, Roserts. 
Editorial N otes. 
In‘this number we give a few extracts from the note books of collectors and 
some brief extracts from correspondence. Wverywhere the season has been bad 
for collecting, and this has been our experience. Cold and wet weather seems 
to have been general in the Eastern and Middle States, and in consequence, 
comparatively little has been found. “Seashore collecting else very productive, 
has this season yielded scarcely anything. Beating and sweeping was’ never so 
unproductive, while sugaring for moths was a discouraging task. 
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From 14. T. L. Casey we have a Revision of the Cucwwidae of N. A. (Tr, A.E. 
Soc. XI, pp. 69—112. Plates IV--VIII.) — Lt. Casey isa new worker in the field, 
and if his future papers show the same thoroughness and conscientious research 
which characterizes this, coleopterists may congratulate themselves on such an 
accession to the ranks of active workers. 
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From Dr. Horn we have ‘‘Notes on the species of Anomala inhabiting the 
United States” (Tr. A. E. Soc. XI, 157—164) and ‘‘Synopsis of the United States 
species of Nolowus:and Mecynotarsus” (ibid pp. 165—176). It may suffice to say 
that these papers are fully up to the Doctor’s high standard. 
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It is an unfortunate and well known fact that Entomological journals never 
‘pay. The Bulletin-is no exception to the rule, but we are anxious to’ make the 
subscriptions go as far as possible. Will those of our subscribers who have not 
yet sent in their subscriptions please do so at an early date? Our expenses have 
been exceptionally heavy thus far, and every dollar helps pay the printer. 
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From Lt. Casey we have another paper ‘Contributions to the Descriptive 
and Systematic Coleopterology of North America” (Pert I with 1 Plate. Publish- 
ed Phil., Aug. 1884). This forms a pamphlet of 60 pages, in which are describ- 
ed rather more than sixty new species, and three new genera (1 Curabid, 2 Stuphy- 
linid). There are synoptic tables of Hucesthetus and Elaphus. The new species 
described. are of all families. A valuable feature is the distinction of the species 
of Lachnosterna usually confused under the term fusca in collections. A goodly 
number of carabidae are described among which, we are sorry to say, several in 
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