120 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



western examples passing under that name. These I have througli the 

 kindness of Dr. Barnes, from Cartwright, Man,; Victoria, B. C; and in my 

 own collection from Winnipeg, Man. It varies but little from its eastern 

 congener, yet, without a larger series, I would not venture to form at 

 present an opinion as to its rank. I place it, therefore, in the following 

 grouj), as arranged : 



Lobophora inequaliata, Pack. (European.) 



r Talledega montanata. Pack. 

 Talledega montanata, Pack.^ var. magnoliatoidata, Dyar. 



V Lobophora nivigerata, Walk. 

 " tabulata, Hulst. Lobophora tabulata, Hulst. 

 Philopsia nivigerata, Walk. Philopsia canavestita, Pearsall. 



THE BURROWS OF CICINDELA RUGIFRONS AND 



CICINDELA MQDESTA. 



BY WM. T. DAVIS. STATEN ISLAND, N. Y. 



On the 24th of last September Mr. Ernest Shoemaker and I went 

 insect-collecting along the edge of the meadow on the south side of Long 

 Island, not far from the Brooklyn City line. We were searching particu- 

 larly for Cicinde/as, but, the day being rather cold, we did not see as many 

 as we had expected. 



^Vhile looking about on one of the dunes I noticed a Cicindela 



rugifrons disappear into a little hole. He saw me coming and retreated, 



for he had been looking out of his doorway. I dug the Cicindela out, 



and then looked about for other little holes of the same character, of which 



I found a number. They entered the earth at an angle of about 45 



degrees, and were two or three inches deep. They had been made by 



the insects digging into the earth, and little piles of sand were at each 



doorway. I dug open a number of these burrows and found seven 



Cicifideias — some rugifrons and some jnodesta. Mr. Shoemaker also 



secured a number of specimens in the same way. 



When we returned to the dune later in the day there were no 

 Cicindelas flying, and the only specimens we saw were those we dug out 

 of their burrows, always being guided thereto by the tell-tale little heaps 

 of sand. The soil on this particular dune was more compact than is often 

 the case, and the digging operations of the insects were in consequence 

 easier to follow. Modesta and rugifrons live over winter as adults, and 

 so, perforce, mu^t be able to dig into the sand, only on previous occasions 

 we had not found their little burrows, which in the instance mentioned 

 above, seem to have been of the nature of temporary shelters, 



