One day last summer I received a letter from a physician in a town near Carbondale, stating that one of his patients had voided some live beetles, and asking me if I cared to see them. Assuring him that I did, he sent me several specimens of the species above mentioned. Not having this species in our collection, one of them was sent to Dr. F.M. Webster, Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, who identified it for me, but doubted its being an intestinal parasite.