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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST [Vol. LVI 



eluding 1918 and a brief statement indicating the more 

 important food habits. The information in the first two 

 columns was compiled from the recently issued " Cata- 

 logue of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico" 

 by C. W. Leng. 



Phytophaga 



LymexylidBB 2 Bore in hard wood. 



BuprestidsB 379 Wood borers in healthy and unhealthy trees. 



CerambycidBB 1,123 Borers in dead, dying and healthy trees and 



plants. 



ChrysomelideB 974 Feeders on vegetable tissue. 



PlatypodidflB 5 Boring i 



Scolytidffi 379 Borers i: 



Silphidffi 137 Scavengers 



Orthoperidae 57 In decaying vegetation 



animal and vegetable 



Pselaphidse 355 Va 



Clavigeric 

 Ptiliid® . 



ScaphidiidsB 50 In rotten wood, fungi. 



Sphseritidae 1 Same as SiJphidce. 



Cupesidse 4 Under bark, in dry wood, i 



(Edemeridae 49 In timber cast up by se£ 



Mordellidae 142 Varied, adults on tiowe 



wood, fungi, stems of 1 



PythidfB 17 In timber. 



Pyrochroida? 11 Under bark of tree stum 



Euglenidse 39 In dead wood. 



Cerophytidse 2 Probably like those of E 



