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open spaces were covered with myriad flowers and clumps of bunch- 

 grass. Here we found Henry Edward's L. speciosa in abundance. This 

 beautiful little insect is intensely blue with a broad black border and 

 white fringe and with the under side marked like L. polyphemus, the 

 spots being very large and heavy. The female has very little blue and 

 looks almost black at first glance. I judge it to be a dwarfed, desert 

 form of L. polyphemus, hardly larger than exilis, with the coloring and 

 spots very strongly marked. They flew close to the ground and were 

 occasionally taken clinging to the stems of bunchgrass. With their 

 wings folded tight and the under side only showing, they were very 

 much the same color as the grass, which was already bleaching under 

 the desert sun. 



At Johannesburg we took a few L. speciosa, a number of M. neu- 

 mocgeni, several dwarfed desert specimens of E. ausonides and each of 

 us took one E. cethura, form morrisoni (or perhaps W. G. Wright's 

 form deserti). We also saw the tail end of an enormous flight of 

 P. cardui, which covered all of Los Angeles County in February and 

 March. 



Altogether we had a very interesting trip through a fascinating and 

 little traveled country. Generally one sees a number of coyotes and 

 jack rabbits on this trip, but we saw none. We did, however, capture 

 several desert tortoises, three rattlesnakes and a number of horned 

 toads. J. R. HASKIN, Los Angeles, California. 



Cicindela unipunctata Fabr. at Seaville, New Jersey. (Col.). 



Twenty-one specimens of this tiger-beetle were taken along a road at 

 Seaville on August 12 and 16, 1915. The road was well shaded by pine 

 and oak trees and exhibited several kinds of soil. The majority of the 

 specimens were taken on dark, rich-looking earth, which occurs along 

 the coast back of the marshes, but does not penetrate far into the State. 

 At one time, when the road was more used, gravel was filled in along 

 one stretch, and several specimens were taken here. In another place 

 a narrow stretch of white sand occurred in an otherwise uninterrupted 

 area of the black earth before mentioned and two specimens (in copu- 

 lation) were taken on this. But very few of the whole number were 

 taken on white sand. In my search I went back several miles inland 

 and here the typical heavy Jersey sand began and unipuuctata ceased. 

 All the specimens were taken within two miles of the beginning of 

 the road. 



On the first date, August I2th, eleven specimens were taken. This 

 was a bright, sunny morning and the sun's rays penetrated through the 

 foliage overhead and struck the road in places, but unipunctata was 

 never in these light places. On this occasion everyone of the eleven 

 specimens was absolutely motionless when taken. Many of them show- 

 ed no life until after they were put in the bottle. They were usually 

 in or near the centre of the road, in the characteristic tiger-beetle 



