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panda. At the base of the sand dunes, where vegetation was 

 kept back by the drifting sand, I found numbers of Cicindela 

 scutcllaris, and associated with them, but less numerous, C. for- 

 mosa. Both of these species occurred less frequently higher up 

 on the dunes, on the hillsides and near the bottom of the " blow- 

 outs." On the sides of the dunes I took a single specimen of 

 'Geopinus incrassatus, two or three other Carabidae, an Aphodiics, 

 two or three Melano tus fissilis, Trox <zqualis, a few El codes ex- 

 tricata, Anomala binotata and two specimens of a Euphorid 

 which has since been identified as Stephanucha pilipennis Kraatz. 

 Only one other specimen of this species has, so far as I know, 

 been taken in the State, and that was collected this Spring by 

 Prof. E. A. Popenoe, of the State Agricultural College in Man- 

 hattan, Kansas. 



Beating willows enabled me to take but a single specimen of 

 Gastroidea formosa . 



A visit a week later added a nice lot of the two species of Ci- 

 cindelidae mentioned above, to my duplicates. 



The season of 1892 was about ten days later than the preceding 

 and my collecting was done in the latter part of May. I added 

 another beautiful Cicindelid to my list of duplicates, that of C. 

 venusta. I found it sparingly associated with the two species 

 taken the season before. In two visits I took only about a dozen 

 specimens, and only in a single restricted locality. This variety 

 occurs in the western part of the Slate, but to my knowledge it 

 has never been taken in central Kansas, except as here indicated. 

 The Spring of 1893 was unusually cold and windy, and the 

 sand was piled up higher than usual. The best collecting this 

 season I found to be in the bottoms of the sand "blowouts" 

 from seven to nine in the morning. The Coleoptera in consid- 

 erable numbers were taken while sluggish from the chill of the 

 night. In this way I took ten fine specimens of Stephanucha 

 pilipennis, all either dead or crawling slowly over the surface of 

 the sand; two fine specimens of a shining black Cremastochilus, 

 several Anomala binotata, one Anomala minuta, and a fine lot of 

 Chalcodernms collaris which I have no doubt breed in large num- 

 bers in the seed-pods of the Yucca which occur abundantly along 

 the sides of the " blowouts." The only Carabidae taken were a 

 few specimens of Dyschirius globulosis, J^acliys incurvus, Ptcr- 

 ostichus crythropus, Nothopus zabroidcs, Plarpalns 



