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from earthworm-like holes in damp soil on the banks of a Newfound- 
land river. Most of the more southerly records of the species are 
from caves, where the beetles are probably seeking the cooler, more 
moist, and darker conditions. In caves, the beetles seem to be able to 
survive quite well in the dark zone as well as in the twilight zone, 
but the association with caves is only a facultative (troglophilic) one, 
in spite of the cavernicolous characteristics of the beetles’ thin cuticle 
and reduced pigmentation. 
Barr (1968: 81) indicated that there was a cave-specialized (tro- 
globitic) brathinid in lava tube caves in southeastern Idaho, but this 
is the leiodid ( sensu latu) Glacicavicola bathyscioides Westcott 
(1968) which has converged to look remarkably like Brathinus 
(Peck, 1970, 1973, 1974). The omaliine characters cited by Ham- 
mond aid in separating Glacicavicola from this subfamily of staphy- 
linids. 
Adults have been collected in February and from May through 
November, but are most often taken in the summer months. At least 
in the southern Appalachians and in caves the beetles may pass the 
winter as adults. 
I have seen the following material : 
Canada. Newfoundland. Mountains east of Codroy, vii, 1, 
MCZ, Steady Brook, vii, 2, CNC. 
Quebec. Comte Brome. Knowlton, vi, 1, CNC. Comte Gaspe- 
Est. Gaspe, vi, 23, CNC. Comte Gaspe-Ouest. Mont Albert, viii, 
1, CNC. Comte Montmorency. Lac J. Cartier, Parc des Lauren- 
tides, vi, 1 ; viii, 2, CNC. Mare-du-Sault, Parc des Laurentides, 
viii, 3, CNC. County unknown. Pt.-aux-Saumons, vii, 1, CNC. Ste- 
Mathilde, vi, 1, CNC. 
United States. Alabama. Dekalb County. Fort Payne, Mani- 
tou Cave, 1 (Univ. Alabama Museum Natural History). Limestone 
County. Spence Cave, along cave stream in gravel, viii, 4, SBP. 
Madison County. New Hope, Cave Spring Cave, x, 3, INHS. 
Marshall County. Kirkland Cave, along stream, ix, 1, SBP. Natural 
Bridge Cave, along stream, xi, 1, SBP. Morgan County, 3.5 mi SE 
Fayette, forest litter at cave entrance, v, 1, SBP. 
Kentucky. Carter County. Carter Caves State Park, Bat Cave, 
along stream, vii, 1, SBP. Elliott County. Tar Kiln Cave, along 
stream, v, 1 ; viii, 3, SBP. Jackson County. Station Camp Creek, 
in wet gravels, v, 1, SBP. Powell County. Betsy Cave, vii, 1, 
FMNH. 
Maine. Grafton, v, 1, MCZ. 
