;;.S THK CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



piled in iiuge dunes, usualiy north of the excavation. Visits to this 

 region are made in May and June, and are usually well rewarded. The 

 season of 1896 I took Cicindela scutellaris, Say, and Cicindela formosa, 

 Say, in numbers, the former species being more abundant. I also take 

 the beautiful Cicindela venusta, Lee, with the two preceding species, but 

 less abundant ; some seasons only a few specimens are taken. 



Beginning with the collecting season of 1891, I have each year taken 

 a few specimens, never more than six or eight in a season, of the rare 

 Siephanuc/ia piiipennis, Kraatz, first described in 1888 from Nebraska. I 

 have taken it only from May ist to May 20th, crawling sluggishly over 

 the sand, and have found occasionally dead perfect specimens. Warm 

 evenings, during the latter part of April, will probably furnish the best 

 collecting results for this species. Another handsome and desirable 

 insect taken in May and June in this locality is Cremastochilns nitens, 

 Lee. During the warmer parts of the day it can be picked up from the 

 bare sand, but during the hottest part of the day it must be handled 

 quickly, as it becomes active and is a quick flier. 



One of the best finds, Ainmodonus fossor, was made in this locality 

 May 1 6th, 1897. After collecting over the hills about three hours, I went 

 up the side of the sand hill, about twenty feet from the bottom of a blow- 

 out, and sat down to eat a lunch. I soon saw a small round Tenehrionid 

 running over the sand, and captured it. It was difticult to see, as it was 

 almost the exact colour of the sand, and only the closest observation 

 would distinguish it from its surroundings . By digging out depressions 

 left by cattle in passing over the sand, and examining the few plants 

 growing around, I soon took twenty-two specimens from an area of ten 

 feet square. Specimens were sent to Dr. Geo. H. Horn, of Philadelphia, 

 and through his kindness and that of Mr. Chas. Liebeck, were identified 

 as above. The species occurs in sandy locations in Maryland and New 

 York, and in California and Arizona, although the specimens from the 

 extreme west are of a larger size. 



In this locality in 1891 I took Chalcodermus collar is, Horn, quite 

 abundantly, but have not since seen a single specimen. 



The valley of the Smoky Hill River at Wallace, Kansas, within 

 twenty miles of the Colorado line, is an attractive locality for the collector 

 of insects. The clay bluffs south of the Smoky furnish a home and 

 feeding ground for the king of the Cicindelidce, Amblychila cylindriformis ^ 

 Say. Three short visits to this locality in as many years were rewarded 



