ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 583 



Cicindela, but would not be surprised to find them recorded by 

 others.* 



A fly by the name of Gonia frontosa is buzzing over nearly 

 every square yard of the ground about us, and this is what the 

 tigers are looking for. We find several of these flies just emerg- 

 ing from the cracks in the dry ground, soft, palid and with 

 wings yet folded. Little chance do these semi-pupal semi- 

 imaginal things stand against Cicindelian rapacity, save in 

 the quick transition to a more shifty and more atmospheric 

 existence. 



We now look longingly over the twelve miles of level barren 

 plain between us and the shores of Great Salt Lake, where 

 the handsome Cicindela scnilis is said to disport itself about this 

 time of the year, but with a beetle at twelve miles and a dinner 

 at two the choice is with the latter. 



The same afternoon a number of these specimens were 

 packed in cotton and mailed to a friend in the East. A feu- 

 days later a letter was received saying that one of the Cicin- 

 dela audubonii, while in Uncle Sam's mail bags, had behaved 

 in a manner most unbecoming to a supposedly dead beetle, for 

 he had chewed his companion specimen to pieces, and had 

 broken off his own legs in the attempt to escape confinement. 

 I am now at work recharging my cyanide bottle. 



Description of Larvae of Azelina Peplaria Hubn. 



By A. X. CAUDELL, Washington, D. C. 



Length 35 mm. Head 2.5 mm. wide, strongly bilobed, the lobes 

 light ash colored above and obtusely angled. Inner anterior borders 

 of the lobes darker, almost fuscous. Face lighter, especially the lowe, 

 half of the triangular clypeus. General color of the body brownishr 

 mottled with longitudinal splashes of a lighter shade. Tubercles black, 

 minute. Hairs microscopic, black. Thoracic legs on outer side concol- 

 orous with the body ; on the inner surface lighter. Abdominal legs col- 

 ored same as the body on the outer surface, but black on the inner sides, 

 and the venter between the anal pair is also black, bordered posteriorly 

 with white. There is an irregular, not prominent, transverse ridge on the 

 twelfth segment. 



This larva was fed on wild cherry. It entered the soil on July 10 and 

 the moth issued in August. 



* Graininea and audubonii are not species but color varieties of />/;<>, -a. Eds. 



