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in the season, three less than half grown being captured July 8, nine about 

 half grown July 19 and two nearly full grown July 27. This species is pre- 

 daceous and is therefore beneficial. It has a wide distribution, having been 

 recorded from as far west as Nebraska and from a number of the Eastern 

 and Middle States. 



Camptobrochis grandis Uhl. 



This species w'as somewhat common on hard pine at Karner during 

 June and July 1901, though on account of its timidity and rapid movements 

 comparatively few specimens were taken. The adult insect 

 is about inch long, oval in outline and inconspicuously 

 marked with brown and yellowish brown. This species has 

 been recorded by Dr Howard as sucking the eggs of the 

 imported elm leaf beetle, Galerucella luteola Mull., 

 and it is very probably a predaceous form living on some 

 of the weaker insects infesting the plants on which it occurs. 



Mr E. P. VanDuzee lists this species from the Muskoka 

 lake district and states that it is apparently nocturnal in 

 habit, since several were captured while flying around a 

 candle at camp. Some of these individuals, he states, are 

 extremely dark, even approaching an almost uniform piceous 

 black. It has been listed from Iowa by Professor Osborn, from Colorado 

 by Messrs Gillette and Baker, and probably has an extended distribution 

 in America. 



Anthrenus castaneae Melsh. 



An oval, black, golden specked beetle about 3/ 3a inch in length, occurs on blossoms 

 of alder and cornus. 



This species was taken at Poughkeepsie on cornus blossoms June 3, 

 1903, and has also been met with on alder blossoms at Newport by Mr 

 Young. The insect is remarkable because of the triangular shaped, 

 crinkled scales covering its body, by which it may easily be distinguished 

 from A. m u s c n r u m Linn., with which it has probably been confused. 



Fig. 168 Anthrenus 

 castaneae, en- 

 larged ; a % b y scales 

 much enlarged (orig- 

 inal) 



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