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nally other trees. I took the greatest number about 
I650, when Mr. Davis and I found a log near Silver Lake lit- 
erally alive with them. They would take short flights and 
lighting on the log, hide in the crevices of its bark, which, by 
their color and deep-wrinkled furrows, they simulate to a 
degree. Many other species have this restless habit of flying 
from place to place, and on the wing look and buzz very 
like flies. 
Two species of Agrilus are also abundant — rttficollis and 
otios7is~\.hQ first usually on wild blackberries and the second 
on a variety of young saplings. When the trees around 
Marling's Pond were cut down about three years ago, a growth 
of saplings sprang up on which the species of Agrillus were 
quite plentiful and besides many otiosiis an occasional biline- 
atus or interriiptus was found. 
I have never found any of our other species in great num- 
bers. Of the Anthaxia all my specimens have come from a 
clump of wild cherry in the Clove Valley. Chalcophora is said 
to breed in pine, but a good deal of beating has yielded little. 
The species have been found washed upon the beach and one 
specimen of liberta was taken by Mr. Davis flying at 
Watchogue. Two species of Brachys occur on the leaves of 
certain oaks, and I have found them in North Carolina in 
great numbers. Probably they will be found abundantly 
somewhere on Staten Island. 
Chrysobothris aztirea was a notable capture of 1886, and is 
everywhere counted a rare insect, but from May to July of 
that year it was plentiful on a species of dogwood in a thicket 
now burned over and turned into " Prohibition Park." The 
house, built, as I am told, for the dominie, stands just above 
where the first was taken. The beetles were very quick in 
their movements, and were captured by beating the trees over 
an umbrella, out of which they flew again as soon as they 
touched it. Several were observed resting on the main stems 
of the young trees with the anterior legs extended and the 
last ventral segment touching the bark and they were proba- 
bly females depositing their eggs. None have been found 
since 1886, nor have I been able to find the larvae in the few 
trees that are left. 
Attention was called to the recent death of Mr. S. Elliot 
Lowell. 
March 14, 1889. — Mr. L. P. Gratacap showed specimens of 
