114 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



C. pimctulata, Fab., is common all over the State, May, June, and 

 July, and still later in the season. I find it each season at McPherson, at 

 the electric lights ; some of the specimens approaching the variety 

 micans in colourings. The green and blue variety, micans, Fab., occurs 

 in the valleys of the Smoky Hill and Arkansas Rivers, in West Kansas. 

 I have collected it sparingly near Wallace and Coolidge. At Wallace it 

 is found more frequently on the mud of dry pools and moist mud, 

 associated wxih ptaictidata. 



C. cuprascens, Lee, is found in Lawrence, Topeka, Hutchinson and 

 Rooks Coimties, on sand bars and on banks of streams, according to 

 Prof. Popenoe. I have taken but a single specimen, on a salt marsh near 

 Fredonia, Kansas, in June. Also taken occasionally at electric light at 

 McPherson in June and July. 



C. >nacra, Lee, 1 have taken at Great Spirit Springs, in Mitchell 

 County, in July, and also on sand bar of Solomon River, near Kirvvin, 

 Kansas. It occurs at electric lights in Lawrence and Topeka, and I 

 find a few each year in the electric lights in McPherson. 



C. sperata, Lee. A variety of this species occurs on the wet mud 

 near the water's edge of streams flowing through salt marshes. I took 

 my first specimens in July, 1885, at the Great Spirit Springs, The past 

 four seasons I have taken this variety in great abundance on the salt 

 marsh near Kackley. During the hottest part of the day they fairly 

 swarm over the hot, steaming mud, a single throw from the net often 

 taking a half-dozen specimens. The variety taken in Kansas is difi'erent 

 from that taken in Texas and New Mexico. The Kansas salt marshes 

 probably mark its northern limit. 



C. lepida, Dej., occurs sparingly throughout Kansas, from east to 

 west, along the Arkansas River. Prof. Snow takes it at Lawrence at the 

 arc lights, and it is taken in Topeka in the same w^ay. It also occurs at 

 Manhattan, and I found a single specimen August i6th on a sand bar 

 near Dodge City. 



C. cimmpicia, Laf , I first met with in Kansas on a salt marsh near 

 Fredonia in June. This saline deposit is in South-east Kansas, and 

 marks the south-east limits of this species in the United States. I have 

 since taken it in numbers on saline deposits in Cloud, Mitchell, 

 Republic, Stafford and Kiowa Counties, from June to August. It is 

 more common around the edges of saline deposits, where there is some 

 vegetation for shelter. During the hottest parts of the day, and also on 



