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range through the gray, red and brown tones. I understand 

 that Dr. Henry Skinner first noticed this emerald form and 

 wrote to some specialists suggesting that it ought to be named. 

 Both Mr. C. W. Leng and Mr. E. D. Harris concurred in that 

 opinion, but both were generous enough to suggest that I 

 name it. Hence the proposed varietal name marutha. Any- 

 one who understands the spectrum can hardly expect an inter- 

 mediate between two colors so far removed. 



A year ago last June I caught a few Cicindelas in rny hand, 

 (having left net at home), at DeBruce, Sullivan County, New 

 York. Three specimens were distinctly olivaceous. They 

 were, however, ancocisconensis, as all agree in New York. I 

 gave one such to Mr. Leng and Mr. Harris and retain the 

 third. Next year I went back in June. Mr. Harris and Mr. 

 W. T. Davis went in June and August, the last week in each. 

 We took large series of ancocisconensis, but all typical in color. 



They are extremely local, found only on the roadway along 

 the Mongaup river for the first three miles from DeBruce vil- 

 lage. It is to be hoped that some collector will make a catch 

 this year. Anyone interested will receive full information 

 about locality if he will enclose postage for reply. Repanda 

 and tranquebarica fly with them. 



Se.rguttata is common in the fall months on the Mongaup 

 road. In June the form on the Willowemock road is entirely 

 harrisii. So far as I can observe these two forms do not meet. 

 I took one harrisii (which I gave to Mr. Leng), with head and 

 thorax colored like purpurea. They fly together and I have 

 seen male purpurea and female harrisii with unmistakable un- 

 derstanding between them. Punctulata is common over the 

 same road, but from midsummer only. I have never seen sex- 

 guttata on this road. The evidence so far tends to substanti- 

 ate Mr. Leng's claim for harrisii rather than Dr. W. Horn's 

 curt dismissal. It is worthy of speculation whether harrisii did 

 not originate from natural hybrids of purpurea blood. 



THE entire collections of British and exotic Hymenoptera, the Palae- 

 arctic Hemiptera and the microscopical preparations of the late Ed- 

 ward Saunders, F. R. S., are now in the Natural History Museum at 

 South Kensington, London, S. W. 



