[543] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 249 
This is an interesting addition to our insect fauna. Its occurrence 
has been looked for on the ground of the occurrence of-a species on the 
Pacific Coast, for, as a rule, (rapidly losing its exceptions,) any genus 
represented in Europe and on the Pacific Coast will have a representa- 
tion in the Atlantic faunal region.”—Horn. 
This species was found burrowing in sand, between tides, at Beesley’s 
Point, New Jersey. 
BLEDIUS CORDATUS (Say.) (p. 462.) 
Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., vol. iv, p. 461. 
This small species occurred in considerable abundance near Beesley’s 
Point. It forms its small burrows in the loose sand at and just below 
high-water mark, in company with Talorchestia longicornis, Scyphacella 
arenicola Smiru, &c. It throws up a small heap of sand around the 
opening of its burrows, which are much smaller than those of the 
following species. 
“This species is somewhat variablein the form of the elytral dark 
spot. The elytra are pale testaceous or nearly white in color, and nor- 
mally with a cordate space of brownish color, and with the apex in front. 
This spot may become a narrow median fusiform space, or be divided 
so that the suture is pale; the spot frequently becomes larger by the 
apex of the cordate spot, extending to the scutellum and along the basal 
margin.”—Horn. 
BLEDIUS PALLIPENNIS (Say.) (p. 462.) 
Journal Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. iii, p. 155. 
Shores of Great Egg Harbor, near Beesley’s Point, common, burrow- 
ing perpendicularly in moist sand considerably below high-water mark. 
The holes are round, with a small heap of sand around the orifice. This 
species is also found far inland. (Horn.) 
HETEROCERUS UNDATUS Melsheimer. (p. 464.) 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. ii, p. 98. ‘ 
Beesley’s Point, burrowing in sand, between tides. This species 
occurs also on the margins of inland streams. (Horn.) 
PHALERIA TESTACEA Say. 
Long’s Expedition, vol. ii, p. 280, 
Somer’s Point, on the shore of Great Egg Harbor, between tides. 
NEUROPTERA. 
MOoLANNA, species undetermined. (p. 379.) 
This larva was found in a firm, straight, flattened, tapering tube, 
made of grains of sand, and attached to the piles of a wharf, below 
high-water mark, at Menemsha Bight, on Martha’s Vineyard, October, 
1871, by Dr. Edward Palmer. 
