Zoological Miscellany. 



in line, crossing, in my case, a small run on a board, fighting a battle, 

 making numerous prisoners, carrying them away in triumph, and 

 setting them to work in mines which they never again are able to 

 leave. And all this planning carried on in a brain that would not fill 

 an empty pinhead. Do our boasted generals do more ? — C. G. Siewers, 

 Newport, Kentucky. 



COLEOPTERA. 



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Omophron robustum, Horn. — The locality for this species (on 

 Mill creek, near the C, H. & D. R. R. bridge), seems to be com- 

 pletely obliterated, the high water washing awa}^ the sandy bank* 

 completely. The geographical distribution of the species is very re- 

 markable. It was described by Dr. Horn (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. III., 

 1874), from a single specimen taken by Mr. Schwarz on Lake Superior. 

 It remained unique until Mr. H. B. Wilson and myself found it in com- 

 pany with Omophron tessellatum and O. americanum, at the above 

 mentioned locality. "By pouring water on the banks, the Omophron, 

 thinking the creek was swelling, came up out of the sand in which the} T 

 were concealed, and ran up for higher ground. On my first visit to 

 this locality, I secured 147 0. robustum, from which I have supplied 

 nearly every collection in the U. S., and several in Europe. 



Megalodacue ulkei, Crotch. — This pretty little Erotylid was de- 

 scribed by Mr. Crotch from a single specimen in Mr. Ulke's great col- 

 lection — its localit}^ was Kentucky. While hunting insects in some 

 heavy woods on the reservoir road back of Newport, I took from a single 

 beech log about 200 of this species, then unknown to me. They were 

 feeding on a brown fungus (Polyporus) which was growing thickly 

 over the log. Since then hundreds have been taken from this woods, 

 and though we have hunted the other favorable localities for miles 

 around, not a single specimen has been observed out of it; it seems to 

 be confined to this woods. 



Eudesma undulata, Mels. — Melsheimer's type has been for years the 

 sole representative of this species, and is in Dr. LeConte's collection in 

 Philadelphia — its locality was " Penn." Mr. C. G. Siewers re-discovered 

 the species (one specimen) under the bark of a sycamore tree, July 

 1879. In August, 1880, while hunting in the crevices of a deca} T ing 

 buckeye log for minute insects, I took several more of this very rare 

 insect. 



Dryobius sexfasciatus, Say. — This beautiful longicorn was more 

 abundant last July than I have ever before observed it. By nailing slabs 



