'S2 THK rvN.MMAN kntomih^m;ikt. 



latna. »iiii<- lii luc ^r. -nni \m^ corr<r";ponding sialemcm i> "First 



row itraight." The species contatata (which, as before mentioned, 



'\% ftratemis, Em ) was based on a single specimen, concerning which, in 

 the paper of 1903, p. 649, it is written : '^Donal rye-area more than /-j 

 the length 0/ the cepha/othorax," while in 1904, p. 649, the statement is : 

 ^'Dorsal eye area to the cef^halothorax as /./».'' Also in the first place : 

 ^'The length of the chelicera is about twice the height 0/ the head in front " 

 while in the second he writes : '^Chelicera fully -?> times the height of the 

 head in front" etc. 



COLLliCTINC; BKKTLKS IN MEXICO. 



BY FRANK R. MASON, GERMANTOWN, PA. 



Although very much neglected in an entomological sense, the great 

 Republic of Mexico, comprising nearly eight hundred thousand square 

 miles of territory, is a fascinating lield for the collector. It has been my 

 good fortune to visit the country several times, but my trips have always 

 been n)ore or less hurried, so that collecting has been a side issue to which 

 I should like to have devoted more lime. It might be well to say that I 

 only collected ('oleoptera. 



This last summer my way led southward from St. I^uis through 

 Texas, entering Mexico by the Laredo gateway. Our first stop-over was 

 at Monterey, that city which has been so ravaged by fire and fiood. 

 Nothing especially interesting enlomologically was turned up here, the 

 fauna being practically Texan for some distance south of the Rio Grande. 

 Aphonus tridentatus. Say, several species of Ligyrus and Xyloryctes 

 satyrus, F., found their way into the potassium jar ; Euphoria basalis, U. 

 & (i., was common on a species of cactus, while Cotinis mutabilis. Gory, 

 was in great numbers, like swarms of bees, around the mimosas. 



Two hundred and fifty miles further south, at San l.uis Potosi, con- 

 ditions were much the same . the same arid, senn-desert plateau country, 

 with r.ingcs of bare, jajjgcd nmuniains always in view. A flying trip over 

 the Tampico «livision of the Mexican Central Railway added to our 

 captures a fine specimen of Antichira lucida, Ol., which Hew in through 

 the car window ; I had some specimens of this in my collection from 

 Hra/il. Numerous //eliionii, I'ictorina stetenes and other unfamiliar 

 tropi( l-epidoptcra were Hying in the open forest glades in a most 

 tempting way. I- rom a scenic standpoint this journey from Cardenas down 

 through the Tamasopo Canyon is probably on*- of the finest in the world. 



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