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species of dock that grows over bottom land, can be taken numbers of the 

 beautiful Phytonovius eximim, Lee. They are very shy and drop quickly 

 to the ground on the first alarm. The open mouth of the cyanide bottle 

 should be under them befjre the plant is touched. From the opening leaf- 

 buds of the young hickories may be beaten Conotracheliis nemiphar, 

 Herbst., and affinis, B^h., and the sap from stumps of freshly cut hickory 

 trees attract numbers of Colastus semitectws, Say; Soronia undiilata, Say; 

 Ferihaiycra Murray i, Horn; Pocadius kelvohis, Er.; Cryptarcha concinna, 

 Mels.,and Badridmm striatiini, l^tc. Under stones nearthebluffs bordering 

 the valley may be found rather sparingly Pasimachus cali/ortiicus, Chd., 

 and resting under the same shelter an occasional Diplotaxis corvina, Lee. 

 While collecting over the tree-covered stony knoll near Benedict, in this 

 County, in September, 1896, I took a single fresh specimen of Nomaretus 

 cavicollis, Lee, the only specimen of this beautiful Carabid I ever took 

 south of the Kansas River at Manhattan. 



Collecting at Salina, Kansas, in 1884 and 1885, yielded a number of 

 species of Apions, identified by Mr. H. C. Fall, of Pasadena, California. 

 Among them were Apion segtiipes, Say, rather common ; attennatum. 

 Smith ; griseutn, Smith ; and occidentale, Fall, MS., occurred rarely, and 

 are all new to the Kansas list. On the Kansas and Nebraska line, near 

 Superior, Nebraska, the latter part of May, in 1S95, I took Apion minor, 

 Smith ; spinipes, Fall, MS., and Nebraskense, Fall, MS., a few specimens 

 of each. Near Rago, Kingman County, Kansas, August 15th, 1898, I 

 took a half dozen specimens of Apion modestum, Smith, a species also 

 new to the list oi Kansas Coleoptera. In the same locality I took 

 Ani/iofiomus moleculus, Casey; Orthoris Crotchii, Lee, and Pseiidobaris 

 far da, Lee. 



Some seventy-five miles south-west of Rago, at Belvidere, Kansas, I 

 took on August i6th numbers of Pledrodera scaiator, Say. This hand- 

 some borer was easily taken about sunset on the leaves and twigs of 

 young willows and cottonwoods. Other desirable species taken at this 

 locality were Lappus lividus, Casey ; Mitostylns tenuis, Lee. ; Anthotiomus 

 tedus, Lee. ; Coeliodes asper, Lee ; Zygogramma disrupta, Rogers ; Zygo- 

 gramma heterothecce, Linell. 



Cicindehi vio/acea, Fab., the beautiful blue or green tiger beetle, is 

 taken in May or June in the wooded valleys of Eastern Kansas. I took 

 two or three specimens near Benedict, in Wilson County, South-east 

 Kansas, last season. Have never taken it west of Manhattan, at the 

 junction of Big Blue and Kansas rivers. 



