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Cychrus feed on snails, I collected several C. victims which were 

 just feeding on a very flat species of snail (Patida aUernata Say), 

 having the head and a great part of the thorax concealed in the 

 fchell. That induced me to collect those species of snails, which 

 live under rotten stumps and logs, and I placed them under pieces 

 of board iu numbers, and was always paid for my trouble. But 

 as the snails sometimes moved away. I bored a small hole in the 

 shell near its mouth and fastened them with a pin under the 

 boards. Some years 1 captured in this way 1 f> and more Cychrus 

 (vidmis, Leconiei and canad). 



SCHAUPP 



The Red Maple trees (Acer rubrum, Moench) in Dayton, Ohio, 

 were greatly infested by Trochilmm acerni Clemens, in consequence 

 a large number of those shade trees are dead or dying. 



G. R. PILATE. 



By placing tared ropes around the trunks of the infested trees, 

 by protecting the insectivorous birds or by introducing the spar- 

 row, the ravages of such insects may be prevented. 



C FUCHS 



The best collecting ground I discovered is a little wood, about 

 10 acres, near North Branch, Sullivan Co. N. Y. I have visited this 

 locality fcr the last six years and have found there many rare and 

 valuable species, among which were Cychrus viduus and canaden- 

 sis, Calathus impunctatusx, Platynus angustatus x. Pterost. ros- 

 tratus, adoxus and honestus, Myas coracinus, Dicselus dilatatusx, 

 Phymaphora pulchella, Mycetina perpulchra x. Mycotretus pulch- 

 er, Clinidium conjugensx, Dorcus parallelus, Ceruchus piceus, 

 Osmoderma eremicola, Cupes capitata and concolor, Limonius au- 

 rifer, Tragosoma Harrisii, Bellamira scalaris, Leptura canaden- 

 sis x, erythroptera and subhamata, Toxonotus Schaumii, Phellop- 

 sis obcordatax, Bolitotherus bifurcusx, Bolitophagus corticolax, 

 and depressus, Pomphopea Sayi, Capnochroa fuliginosa x, Andro- 

 chirus fucipes, etc. etc. 



At the nearest Station of the Erie R. R. Callicoon, I found Ci- 

 cindela marginipennis, Patrobus rugicollis and many Bembidi- 

 nra. etc. 



My friend Schmelter and myself prepared a list of the species 

 found there numbering nearly 600, which will be published later 

 in the Bulletin. 



Several members of our Society Mess. E. Groh, H. Schmelter, 

 E. Graef, F. Tepper, J. Mayer who spent their vacation there, 

 were well pleased with the results of their collectings. 



::- I shall t«? very hawv to rwt any coUector there during ih-i present sur.i-mtr July 5'/i- 

 r p' is'. Tlt£ Piatm—e'er in Ca'J,i:<JO-n wi-.t furnish viy direction. 



SCHAUPP 



