NOTES ON SEVERAL SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HABITS, ETC

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This pretty and interesting species, described by Mr. G. R. Crotch from a single specimen in the collection of Prof. Ulke, of Washington, D. C., who received it from Kentucky ten years ago, has remained unique in his collection until I found it, together with its larvæ and pupa.

Its food is fungus ( Polypora) growing on logs. Its full-fed larvæ are 7/8 inch 1ong, rather slender, of light color, with the head brown; it eats out a cavity in the fungus, and there transforms to a pupa, which is of a pale flesh color.