286 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November, 



found a deep " blow-out" close up to and on the north bank of 

 the stream. Here, running over the sides and bottom of the 

 " blow-out" I found them in considerable numbers. They were 

 very active little fellows, but I succeeded in taking twenty-five 

 or thirty in two hours' work with the net. 



The surface I collected over was not over one hundred feet 

 square, and they were taken only on sand without vegetation, or 

 sparsely covered with grass. 



I visited the same locality May 3ist and June ist, of this year, 

 and found the beetles at the same "blow-out." The weather 

 was cooler and took only a dozen specimens from 3 to 4 p. m. 

 The next morning I took the first specimens shortly after 9 a. m., 

 and up to 11.30 had taken over thirty specimens. I was told by 

 a resident that he had seen this insect in large numbers at a large 

 "blow-out" eight or ten miles farther up the valley of the 

 Frenchman. He called them "calico" bugs. The species 

 taken in this locality differ somewhat from those further north- 

 west. E. A. Schwartz, of the Division of Entomology, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. , says: "Your Cicindela limbata are smaller than 

 those collected by Bruner, and with the green markings wider. 

 I do not doubt that there is somewhere in Nebraska or further 

 north where specimens will be found intermediate between lim- 

 bata and bnrealis, ' ' 



My specimens had, with two or three exceptions, green or blue 

 markings. The exceptions were coppery bronze. While making 

 these two trips I collected at Superior, Culbertson and McCook, 

 and found some very good things. The list includes: 



Cicindela scutel/aris, at Culbertson and Imperial. C. lecontei, 

 at Superior. C. formosa, at all three places. Chlanius sericeus, 

 uebraskensis and Brachylobus lithophilus, at Culbertson. Hister 

 subrotundus and nubihis, and Saprinus pennsylvanicus, fraternus 

 and patruelis, at Superior. Carpophihcs pallipennis, at Imperial. 

 Meligethes mutaius, at Superior. Hydnocera mbfasciata, at Im- 

 perial. Ptilinus thoracicns, at Superior. Canthon nigricornis* 

 at Imperial ; I have the same species from Florida. Canthon 

 ebenus, at all three places. Aphodius ruricola, at Superior and 

 Culbertson. A. dentiger, at Superior. A. walshii, at Superior 

 .and Imperial. Lachnosterna crassissima, at McCook. Poiy- 

 pkylla iQ-lineata, at Imperial ; very far east for this species. 

 Cremastochilus knochii, at Superior. C. nitens, two specimens 



