TllK CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



One drops down in a few hours from the high desert country into all the 

 luxuriant vegetation of the Gulf coast. The air is moist and humid from 

 ahnost constant rainfall, and Nature seems fairly to have outdone herself 

 in the wild riot of growth. 



Again retracing our steps to San Luis Potosi, the next point at which 

 I had any opportunity of collecting was in the neighbourhood of Lake 

 Chapala, near Guadalajara, in the western part of Mexico. Calosorna 

 angulatum, Chev.; Epilachna Mexicana, Guer.; Pdidnota virescens, 

 Rurm.; Acanthoderes fimeraria, Bates : Taricanus Truqiiii, Thorn.; 

 Calligrapha serpentina, Rg.; C diversa, Stl. ; Zygogramma malvcf., Stl ; 

 Leptinotarsa IJa/deinan/ii, Rg., and numerous other Phytophaga (as yet 

 undetermined) were among our captures. Also Trachydcrcs c/egans, 

 which would light on the upper branches of the thorn trees in a most 

 provoking way. Several species of Macrodactylus were found in the 

 gardens. 



Cicindelidie I always found to be very scarce ; it may be I was never 

 at the right season for them. Cicindela flavopunctata, Chev., and C. 

 niellyi, Chd., I collected near Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, but they are 

 the only ones. At Necaxa, in the Stale of Piiebia, was found the 

 remarkable C/irysina niacropus, Iraac; in the uialc the hind femora, are 

 so enormously developed that it gives the beetle the appearance of walking 

 on stilts. The species normally is a delicate apple-green colour, though 

 some of the specimens are speckled like an egg. 



But of all the collecting I have done in Mexico, the vicinity of 

 Cordoba, in the State of Vera Cruz, has yielded the largest number of 

 species. Take this section of the country from Motzorongo to Jalapa, 

 and as far west as the town of Orizaba, at an elevation of 4,000 feet, one 

 finds an ideal tropical country, a healthy climate, with all the rich and 

 beautiful growth of the torrid zone, and but few of the disadvantages. 

 Almost nightly rainfall or dense mists blown in from the Gulf keep things 

 green and fresh. The graceful cone of Orizaba volcano, nearly 18,000 

 feet above sea level, is almost always in view, and its snow-covered 

 summit forms a striking contrast when seen from the foiests of the 

 low-lands. Collecting at the electric lights, witii which the plazas in even 

 the smaller towns are supplied, yielded such interesting tilings as : 

 Acrocinus longimaims, L. (the harlecjuin beetle of the Amazon); Callipogon 

 senex, Dupont ; Dynastes hyllus, Chev.; Xyloryctes te/ephus, Burm.; X. 

 Jiiicaius, Burra.; Coelosis bi/oba, L.; Heierogomphns Chevrolati, Burm.; 

 Podischnus iersander, Burm.; Strategus /uliatius, Burm ; Golofa 



