PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



STATEN ISLAND ASSOCIATION 



OF 



ARTS AND SCIENCES 



Vol.111 March-Mav, 191 i Part IV 



Salt Meadow Beetles^ 



Charles W. Leng 



I desire to call attention to the salt meadows of Staten Island 

 in connection with beetles. We have in them a locality differing 

 from any other part of the island and therefore presumably in- 

 habited by some insects not found elsewhere on Staten Island,— a 

 locality as yet not greatly altered by our increasing population 

 and likely in some parts to remain unaltered for a long time. 



Some of the species which I know are to be found on the salt 

 meadow and which I believe are peculiar to it and similar meadows 

 in Xew Jersey and other parts of the Atlantic coast, are shown 

 in this box. I may especially mention Bcmbidinm contractiim 

 Say, which I have found abundantly on the sloping muddy banks 

 of the winding creeks in the meadow. In the daytime they are 

 hiding under rubbish, dried mud, pieces of wood, etc., and come 

 out probably at night to hunt small prey on the banks. Other 

 species of Carabidae are less plentiful; I have found Clirina 

 striata punctata Dej., and in J. B. Smith's list of the Insects of 

 Xew Jersey about a dozen species are specially mentioned as in- 

 habiting the salt meadows. 



'Presented at the meeting of the Section of Biologj-, May 13, lyii. 



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