THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 381 



COLLECTING NOTES AND RANDOM OBSERVATIONS 

 ON THE MAINE COLEOPTERA. 



BY C. A. FROST, FRAMINGHAM, MASS. 



Cicindela purpurea limbalis Klug. Two female specimens of 

 this variety, taken at Wales, June 15, 1909, are very much like 

 the single specimen from Mt Desert Island that was given me by 

 Mr. E. D. Harris. 



Cicindela formosa generosa Dej. A single specimen of this 

 species was seen at the roadside in Monmouth, June, 1912, and is 

 the most eastern record that has come to my notice. I once took 

 a few at Ogunquit Beach, September 17, 1903. They were not 

 along the beach with the swarms of hirticollis, but back on the 

 high sand dunes and on the slope toward the meadow behind it. 



. Omophron americaniim Dej. My first specimen of this com- 

 mon but interesting species was found when in bathing in Lake 

 Cochnewagin at Monmouth, June 20, 1907. It was driven out 

 while walking on a small sand pit that extends out along a swampy 

 meadow, and further investigations by treading about and throwing 

 water drove them from their burrows by dozens. They also occur 

 along the sandy margins of small brooks where the vegetation is 

 sparse and, like Elaphrus, often appear before the eyes as if they 

 had sprung out of the ground or had magically evolved from the 

 bare sand. 



Elaphrus clairvillei Kirby. I secured a good series of this fine 

 species at Wales, July 9, 1913, along the edges of a meadow through 

 which runs a small brook. They were found at the line where 

 the growth of alders and other small trees met the rushes of the 

 wet, and in some places very soft, meadow bottom. The first 

 specimen was found under a bit of bark in a small area of bare 

 mud under a large swamp maple on July 6, but I was not able to 

 thoroughly explore the swamp and took only six specimens. A 

 few days later I started out bright and early, armed with a pair 

 of rubber boots, and worked along the edges of the bushes for a 

 quarter of a mile or more. They could be driven into sight and 

 easily captured by treading carefully about a small area of from 



November, 1916. 



