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Desmocerus cyaneus.—About 25, years ago, I took a colony of about 
30 specimens off some elder bushes in rear of Trinity College. I have 
never met with another specimen near Toronto, cone A found in fall cf 1870 
at the Sault St. Marie. à 
Calosoma scrutator.—Of this magnificent insect, many dead specimens | 
may be collected on the south shore ef our Toronto peninsula after a 
southerly wind, but I have collected but two living specimens on this side 
of the lake. 
Query.—-Is it known that any of the large Carabidæ are capable of 
ejecting an acid liquid like the Bomébardiers? The following anecdote 
may prehaps be worth embalming in the CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST :— 
In the fall of 1839,1 was wandering with a friend over the rocks at 
Thurand, near Dresden, and found a magnificent Cerabus, about an inch 
long, probably Awraïus or Auronitens. Examining it, the beast ex; 
ploded, and shot me in the eye. The pain was so intense, lasting ‘for 
full a quarter of an hour, that, notwithstanding my Entomological 
| proclivities, the insect was allowed to escape. 
Query.—Can any of your correspondents refer me to a paper on the 
sugar from the ‘‘ Mexican Honey Ant?” I have seen it, but cannot recall 
where. On mentioning this to my late lamented friend, Mr. Williamson, 
who was for years engaged on railway construction in Mexico, he informed 
me that the Indians were often in the habit of knocking down ants’ nests 
from the boughs of trees, and extracting honey from the interior ; this 
honey having been formed, not by the ants, who build the suspended 
nests, but by a species of ‘bee (he called them Sweat Bees), which 
constructed their as. in the centre of the ants’ nest. I should be glad 
to obtain any information of my late friends statement.—H. H. Crort, 
Toronto. 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Exotic LEPIDOPTERA AND COLEOPTERA.—I have a large collection of 
specimens of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera from Australia, Manilla, Mexico, 
and Central America, which I am now arranging for the purpose of sale, 
as I intend confining myself to Californian insects for the future. J will 
not exclude from the offered sale my numerous Californian specimens. I 
will continue to collect in all branches of the Californian entomological 
fauna, and I invite exchange. Ihave also a complete set of the Pacific 
Railroad Survey Reports (13 volumes), in excellent condition, which I 
shall be glad to dispose of. Apply to JAMES BEHRENS, San Francisco 
California. 
