THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Ill 



ed^e of the Smoky Valley. Another species taken was Cicindela micatis, 

 Fab., the green or more rarely blue variety of punctulata. They mingle 

 with the punctulata in the proportion of about one of micans to ten of 

 punctulata. 



Three species of Calosoma were taken : obsoletum, Say, on the 

 upland ; triste, Lee, on the bottom land, and lugubre, Lee, in both 

 localities. All are crepuscular and hide during the day. Obsoletum were 

 found under boards, cow chips and weeds during the day, but on the 

 evening of the second day the sky became overcast about five o'clock and 

 obsoletum suddenly appeared by the hundreds. One could walk along the 

 main travelled road and pick them up every few feet. 



Collecting in the Smoky Hill, here a shallow, narrow, rapid-running 

 stream, fed by springs, two specimens of the comparatively rare 

 Hydrophilus ellipticus, Lee, were taken. Just above the valley, south of 

 the Smoky at Wallace, the Yucca is abundant. In July the upright stems 

 bear large seed-pods, and among these seed-pods were taken on July 12th 

 over sixty specimens of the beautiful Clerus Spinolce, Lee. Their scarlet 

 bodies were easily discernible, but as they were quick movers in the hot 

 sunshine, it took dexterous work to capture them. Feeding on these Yucca 

 pods were numbers of the large black blister beetles, Epicauta corvina, 

 Lee, with an occasional Macrobasis immaculata, Say. 



Quite rare and usually difficult to take, careful work will disclose 

 each season a few of the handsome Clerus cordife?-, Lee They are 

 found on thistles, the sage brush and a few other plants. Beating sage 

 brush and flowering plants enabled us to take a number of Trirliabda 

 attenuata, Say. While beating willows for Poecilonota tkureura, Say, 

 numbers of which can be taken each season, I took in July, 1899, a single 

 specimen of a large Mordellid, Tomoxia bidentata, Say. The same 

 species has been taken at Onaga, Kansas, by F. F. Crevecceur. Seven 

 specimens of Caut/iaris biguttata, Lee, were found on flowering plants 

 along the road over the clay bluffs south of the Smoky Hill. The 

 specimens vary much in size and marking, the spot on each elytron 

 frequently being obsolete. 



But one species of Apion was found at Wallace last season, Apion 

 varicorne, Smith. It is a common south-west plains species, being taken 

 at Coolidge, Kansas, and I have received specimens from New Mexico. 

 The large Curculionid, Ophryrastes tuberosus, Lee, is taken occasionally, 

 and O. vittatus, Say, more commonly. Endalus setosus, Lee, occurs 



