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They make their holes (in captivity) in less than a minute, en- 

 tering with the head and throwing the earth quite a distance, 

 using head and prothorax like a shovel : as soon as the last abdo- 

 minal segment disappears, they turn around and head and pro- 

 thorax close the opening. 



The larvae at the roadside having somewhat deeper holes (12-18 

 inches) and the ground being hard, I and my friend A. Kcebele 

 put. into the holes some grass-stems, at the tip smashed, wetted 

 and dipped in dust. The end was seized by the larvae and then 

 quickly drawing them out, we brought the larvae clinging to the 

 grass to the surface. 



I raised the larvae in wine glasses and tin boxes filled with 

 clayey sand, in which they made their holes. I fed them with com- 

 mon house flies and some larvae, moistening the earth a little every 

 two or three days. 



I hope that by this account some of our readers will be enabled 

 to secure larvae of other species of Cicindelae, and from them should 

 like to get some alcoholic specimens in exchange. 



F G. SCHAUPP 



Inhabitants of a beech, tree. 



July 15th I chopped down a beech tree with the top dried up, but 

 the lower branches with rich foliage. I found the whole inside 

 rotten and the following insects infesting it : 3 Osmoderma eremi- 

 cola, Knoch., 1 0. scdbra (immature), Beauv., 2 Thanasimus sangui- 

 neus, Say., 4 Parandra brunnea, Fab., (one immature) 4 Tomoxia 

 bidentata, Say., 5 Tharops ruficornis, Say., 3 pupae of Nyctobates pen- 

 xylvanica, Deg., (one developed July 28th), 15 large Lamellicornide 

 larvae evidently of Osmoderma, the latter not in the wood but in 

 mould and earth ; a number 'of larvae with 25 Clinidium sculptile, 

 Chevr. : Vespae nearly mature and in larva and jmpa state, a lot of 

 small Staphilinidae, snails, spiders, ants, etc. 



f. g. s. 



Sphinx Cingulata, Fab. Larva found on Convolvulus at Locust Valley, L. 

 1. One S and one 9 obtained ; they emerged about July 15th. 



