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the ventral surface of the beetle having penetrated the wall of the 

 viscus. — (Ed.) 



HERPETOLOGY. 



Eugenia sirtalis (L.j, R. & G. — Common Garter Snake. — (See 

 Ornithology, Buteo borealis, p. 95). 



Diemyctylus viridescens, Raf. — Spotted Triton ; Newt — Early in 

 March, I found this species in ponds, and with it were many young 

 batrachians with external branchiae. As the}' increased in size, the 

 branchiae diminished. On the first of May they were almost as large 

 as the adult, and had developed white spots corresponding to the 

 vermillion spots in the adult; the external branchiae having almost 

 disappeared. The species seems to be very common. 



Spelerpes longicaudus (Green), Baird. — Cave Salamander, — Two 

 specimens of this Salamander were taken in a "spring house" near 

 Brookville, and brought to me. The}' both escaped from a bottle in 

 which I thought to keep them over night. — E. R. Quick, Brookville, 

 Franklin Count}', Ind., May J 1th, ^882. 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



COLEOPTERA. 



On looking back over last season, the finds of entomologists in this 

 section seem to have been rather meagre. In Lepidoptera little was 

 done except in Catocala by sugaring. Some good Coleoptera were 

 taken. In Silphid^e, Necrophihts subterraneus, Dahl., after three sea- 

 sons' hopeless search, turned up again last fall. Mr. Charles Dury 

 had taken three and I one, there being at the 'time but one known 

 specimen, credited to Pennsylvania. Last fall Mr. Dury found another, 

 and I, by replacing fungus, took three. On a trip out the Louisville 

 Short Line to Bank Lick Station, some good captures were made, 

 among the rest that handsomest of Elaters, Lymonius aurifer. In 

 Tenebrionid^e, Slrongylium crenatum, very rare and new; also, in 

 Lagriid^e, a fine bronze variety of Arthromacra cenea, not known to 

 Dr. Le Conte. This season is very late like the last, but it is now 

 high time to begin beating bush and limb. — C. G. Siewers, Newport, 

 Ky., June 8th, 1882. 



Hydrophilus triangularis, Say. — (See Ornithology — Ralliis ele- 

 gans, p. 95. 



