THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 217 



NOTES ON CICINDEL.E IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



BY EDWARD D. HARRIS, NEW YORK.. 



In the early part of May of the present year (1902) the writer made 

 an attempt to collect Cicindelae in the pine belt of North Carolina. 

 While opportunities for observing the distribution of species were too 

 meagre to be of much practical value, certain facts were noted that may 

 be of interest to those studying the genus. 



The first locality visited was Jamestown, a station on the line of the 

 Southern Railway, distant about 220 miles from the coast and 40 from 

 the Virginia line. On the sand bars and banks of Deep River, a 

 tributary of Cape Fear River, beautiful specimens of repanda were taken 

 in abundance. A single duodecimguttata and a single vulgaris of the 

 typical size were taken on the same ground, and a few specimens of 

 sexguttata, both six- and eight-spotted, on sandy paths along the wooded 

 banks of the river. 



At High Point, in the woods eight miles distant, repanda, sexguttata 

 and vulgaris occurred, a single specimen of the latter being noticeable 

 for its small size. Charlotte, the next point visited, 15 miles from the 

 South Carolina line, afforded in its suburbs excellent collecting ground. 

 Along the edges of a creek of formidable dimensions, that showed 

 unmistable evidences of often breaking through its bounds, repanda and 

 duodecimguttata were taken, the former in an unusual range of size. 

 Here also occurred vulgaris in abundance, most of the specimens in both 

 sexes being so small as to warrant special notice. Many of the males 

 were scarcely larger than the typical repanda, and the average in size 

 falls so far below that of the species as generally noted as to indicate the 

 existence here of a sub-race. The maculations are noticeably attenuated, 

 and in some of the specimens there appears a distinct tendency to their 

 obliteration. The humeral lunule is generally either broken or the 

 anterior portion wholly absent. 



The three collecting points heretofore noted are west of, and not to 

 be considered as included in, the pine belt of the State. Hamlet, 75 

 miles to the east of Charlotte, and less than 10 miles from the South 

 Carolina line, is in the heart of the turpentine lands. Here the pine 

 timber abounds — forests of magnificent trees, free from underbrush and 

 plentifully watered. 



At this point a most interesting form of C. scutellaris was taken. In 

 colour it is somewhat suggestive of rugi/rons, but, while being unicolor- 

 ous, is not so intense a green or blue. The maculations, however, differ 



