Coleopterological Notes. 



is now seldom seen. Many fine Elaters have been taken. 

 Those of the sub-family Encnemince , once so numerous, are 

 getting scarcer each year. Of Mclasis pectinicornis I took 

 fifty specimens from a small beech log. 



A dozen Stethon pectorosus rewarded an examination of the 

 underside of a decaying poplar log, on which fungi were 

 growing. I never found any more. Of Corymbites copei I 

 found but one. The Ptinidce were richly represented, as were 

 the Spondylitic?. Of the latter family Parandra polita is the 

 most desirable. I chopped three from a dead beech. The 

 CerambycidcE were abundant and of many species. The 

 beautiful Dryobius sexjasciatus, once numerous on the dead 

 beech and maple trees, is now much less abundant. Of the 

 rare Xyloirechus nitidus, but three specimens have been taken. 

 The Chrysomelidce are richly represented, some of the species 

 entirely too much so. Of the TenebrionidcE I was surprised to 

 secure several Strongylium crenatum beaten from dead haw. 

 The new Melandryid, Mallodryia subcrnea Horn* was abund- 

 ant, living on the branches of dead haw trees. Of the 

 Mordellidce I havef listed fifty-three species w T ith others not 

 yet identified. The Meloidce were never very numerous. 

 April 27, 1891, I shot a king-bird from whose throat emerged 

 a male Pomphopcea cenea that the bird was in the act of 

 swallowing, and from the bird's gizzard I secured another 

 (the female). These are the only ones of this species I ever 

 obtained here. 



The " Weevils," so-called, were numerous. Acalles cari- 

 natus is found (from May 24 to end of June) on the under- 

 sides of beech logs. Euchcetcs echidna lives on the trunks of 

 standing dead beech, as does also Pleocamus hispidulus. Of 

 this latter species I took over 100 from the north side of a 

 single dead beech tree. Piezocorynus dispar and mixtus were 

 found on patches of a powdery fungus growing on standing 

 dead beech. If they were not stealthily approached they 

 would let go and drop parti} 7 to the ground and then fly. 

 The "Clover root beetle," Phyionomus punctatus, is a recent 

 introduction. I took a number from the stomach of a 

 "Night Hawk" (Cliortieiles vir ginianus) . Of the Anthribidcz 

 I have identified seventeen species. 



-Trans. Am. Ent Soc. XV, April, 1888, p. 42. 

 fSee paper this Journal, January, 1893. 



