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six to ten feet in diameter. Rarely more than one specimen was 

 taken in a spot, and t lie eyes had to be constantly fixed on the 

 ground to get any. An entire day was spent at this back-break- 

 ing collecting, and when sunset came I felt very much as I used 

 to feel after a day of potato digging. 



Elaphrus olivacetis Lee. After returning home and critically 

 examining the catch of dairvillci, I was delighted to find two speci- 

 mens that I thought were IcEvigaius, but comparison with the 

 single specimen in the LeConte collection at Cambridge showed 

 them to be typical olivaceus, which I had supposed was a mountain 

 species. These specimens were taken out in the open meadow 

 at the edge of the brook on bare and soft mud. This sluggish, 

 winding, meadow stream which is barely two feet wide in places 

 and in others scarcely traceable, can be but a few hundred feet 

 above sea level, and is hidden between hills of more than a hundred 

 feet rise. On the west, a mile away, is Sabattus Mountain, the 

 highest elevation for miles around. The vegetation of the meadow 

 is the common, coarse, broad-leaved grass of the low lands in Maine, 

 and along the edge Alnus incana which runs up in places to meet 

 the juniper of the bare and rocky pasture land. Within the last 

 few years the larger growth of the hillsides has been cut off. 



Elaphrus cicatricosus Lee. On June 25, 1912, and July 16, 

 1914, I visited the woodland swamp on the shore of Lake Cochne- 

 wagin at Monmouth where I had found this species in 1910. It 

 is rather remarkable that three specimens were taken on each 

 of the three years, one specimen in one spot and two in the other, 

 and either spot can be covered with a wash tub. One additional 

 specimen was taken after thoroughly " treading" over the thousand 

 or so square feet of swamp in 1914. No specimens could be found 

 in the denser growth where no sun entered and no grass grew. 



Blethisa quadricolUs Hald. My only specimen of this species 

 was taken at Wales, June 23, 1912. I had dammed up a tiny 

 rivulet to drive out small species of beetles, and the rising water 

 chased into view this fine Carabid. 



Badister pulchelliis Lee. While hunting for Elaphrus at Wales, 

 as previously noted, five specimens of this showy little beetle 



