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One specimen of A. diana was taken at Nashville, June 24. 

 V. antiopa was seen in September. P. carduiwas abundant from 

 April to November, four broods appearing. L. ursiila appeared 

 from April to August, three broods. Three broods of A. celtis 

 were observed, first imagoes appearing May 28, July 14 and Au- 

 gust 25; also three broods of Ancea aiidria, imagoes from the 

 first brood of larvae emerging June n. JV. gemma was first ob- 

 served on June 10. Late specimens of M. c&sonia were mostly 

 var. rosea. A few specimens of T. nicippe var. flava were taken 

 in August. P. philenor was bred in abundance from Aristolochia 

 iomentosa. As pupae and freshly emerged imagoes were seen in 

 a region where this plant and allied species were not found, efforts 

 were made to discover the food-plant for that locality. A female 

 was observed depositing its eggs on Pseudo-polygonella dumeto- 

 rum, Climbing False Buckwheat, and, though no larvae were 

 found, the above plant may, without doubt, be added to the food- 

 list of this species. 



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A New Collecting Ground for Cicindela limbata Say. 

 By W. KNAUS, McPherson, Kans. 



Cicindela limbata Say is one of the handsomest, and, until 

 within recent years, one of the rarest of this showy family of 

 beetles. It was described by Thomas Say, in 1823, and is not 

 the true species, being but a variety of hyperborea Lee. This 

 beetle was lost for a number of years, but was retaken some fif- 

 teen years ago by E. P. Austin in Nebraska. 



In his monograph of the Cicindelidae in the Bulletin of the 

 Brooklyn Entomological Society, Mr. F. G. Schaupp figures 

 limbata from nature, and partially describes it as follows : 



Head and thorax green, with cupreous tinge; elytra white, suture ob- 

 lique, line and dot green, blue or cupreous; exterior and basal edge 

 greenish blue, beneath blue. Head hairy rugose. Thorax hairy rugose, 

 little convex; elytra punctured, smoother than in hyperborea, with a long, 

 sutural, triangular merula; a small dot before the middle, and an oblique 

 irregular line behind the middle; these markings are brilliantly shining, 

 either green or blue, or cupreous. Length 12 mm. 



It occurs, or has been taken, only in Nebraska, although it in 

 all probability occurs in northeastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, 

 and possibly southwestern Dakota. 



