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the literature. The species with the longest tongues (8 and 

 10 mm.) might be expected to visit flowers with tubes of a 

 corresponding length, such as are adapted to long-tongued 

 bees or butterflies. 



The behavior of these beetles when at work on the flowers 

 presents additional evidence of the high degree of adaptation. 

 Immediately after alighting on a flower, on the head of a 

 Rudbeckia for example, the insect proceeds to insert its tongue 

 into a tubal floret for the purpose of sucking. After a short 

 while the head is lifted upward, the tongue withdrawn, and 

 with a downward movement thrust into a neighboring floret. 

 These upward and downward movements are carried out with 

 much precision, with little or no loss of time, and much in the 

 same manner as the corresponding movements of the highly 

 specialized flower-flies of the genera Systoechits, Sparnopolius, 

 Anthrax, E.roprosopa, etc., belonging to the Bombyliidae. 

 These beetles surpass in this respect any of the flower visiting 

 beetles of our region, except possibly their 'nearest relatives, 

 those belonging to the Meloid genus Gnathium, which are also 

 equipped with long tongues, of the habits of which, however, 

 we have no information. 



Observations on Cicindelidae in Northern Cape May 

 County, N. J., during the Summers of 1 908-09. 



HENRY Fox, PH. D., Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa. 



During the past two summers I made a series of observa- 

 tions on the occurrence, abundance and distribution of Cicin- 

 delidae with reference to the physical features of northern 

 Cape May County. These observations were made almost 

 continuously from early in July to September gth in 1908, 

 while in 1909 they were extended at intervals until October 3. 

 The physical features of the region may be broadly grouped 

 as follows : 



I The Barrier Beaches. 

 II The Maritime Marshes. 

 Ill The Interior Uplands. 

 IV- -The Cedar and Sphagnum Bogs. 



I The Barrier Beaches I use this term to designate the 



long sandy islands immediately facing the ocean. The par- 



