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Psyche 
LSept. 
gray squirrel, Eastern cottontail rabbit, red fox, chip- 
munk, raccoon, skunk, Virginia deer, red-eyed towkee, 
catbird, Eastern or American robin, and brown thrasher. 
This makes twelve new hosts for the larval and nymphal 
forms of Ixodes muris Bishopp and Smith. Also re- 
corded for the first time was the larval form of Derma- 
centor variahilis (Say) from the long-tailed shrew. This 
represents the first record of any species of tick taken 
from the long-tailed shrew in the Northeastern United 
States. 
All identifications recorded for the first time were 
verified by Dr. Joseph C. Bequaert, Curator of Insects, 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, to whom the writer is 
indebted for his kind and valuable assistance. 
Sphixdim: and CisnnE (coleoptera) 
During May, 1945, species of this family were found 
swarming in the small, crowded, woody fungi on standing 
dead and fallen trees and also stumps. There were many 
of what appears to be Sulcacis lengi Dury, Cis fuscipes 
Mellie, Ennearthron thoracicorne Zieg., Octotemnus Icevis 
Csy., and Sphindus americanus Lee. They had about all 
disappeared by the end of June in Mass. About the same 
species and under the same conditions were found at 
Paris, Me., with the addition of Eurysphindus denticollis 
Lee., which occurred in a flat, brown fungus of a soft 
smut-like consistency on a partly uprooted poplar in the 
woods. This has been taken before on the same species 
of fungus on the top of a stump at Monmouth, Me., June 
27, 1912. — C. A. Frost. 
