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The allotype female is much paler throughout but presumably belongs to 

 this species; the markings on the body as well as the wings are very pale but 

 indicated. 



Habiiat. — Northwestern United States. 



Holotype. — cf , Longmire Springs, Mt. Rainier, Washington, altitude 2,500 

 feet, July 18, 1919, (Dr. C. L. Fox.). 



Allotype—^ , Paradise Valley, Mt. Rainier, altitude 6,000-8,000 feet, 

 August 5, 1919, (Dr. C. L. Fox.). 



Paratypes. — Two cfs, Moscow, Idaho. 



Type in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences. 



Tipitla pseudotruncorum bears a resemblance to the European T. truncorum 

 Meigen, and was distributed under this name by Prof. Doane. What is ap- 

 parently this same species has been recorded by Snodgrass (Trans. Am. Ent. 

 Soc, Vol. 30, pp. 211, 212; 1904) as T. truncorum. A comparison with authen- 

 tic specimens of truncorum received from my friend, Herr M. P. Riedel, shows 

 that the two species are abundantly distinct. 



NOTES ON THE COLEOPTERA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 



NEW SPECIES. 



BY C. A. FROST. 



Framingham, Mass. 



Cicindela spreta Lee. Several years ago I prepared a note on the 

 capture of this form in Maine, but after some correspondence with the late 

 Mr. Edward D. Harris it was laid aside. Further interesting facts regarding 

 this much misunderstood insect were noted in his letters which should correct 

 the impression given by several authors that it is closely related to purpurea 

 Oliv. His father, T. W. Harris, some time prior to 1848, sent Dr. LeConte a 

 specimen taken at Eastport, Maine, and which, according to Mr. Harris, is the 

 unique type now in the LeConte collection at Cambridge, Mass., and bears 

 his father's label. 



The original description in the "Catalogue of the Geodephagous Cole- 

 optera" (Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., 1848, p. 177) begins, ''Obscure nigro-aenea sub- 

 viridescens,- — •", and was probably made from the specimen in the LeConte 

 collection, as it is a green insect of about the shade of those green forms of 

 purpurea which sometimes pass for spreta, but having the complete limbalis 

 markings. The figured spreta on the coloured plate XIII of the above work 

 is a black insect, and it is referred to in the LeConte Revision of the Cicindelae 

 of 1856 (Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. XL, p. 37) under limbalis (as a variety of splendida) 

 as, ''Nigra. C. spreta Lee. Ann. Lye, 4, 177; tab. 13, fig. 7", and in a few lines 

 below, "Eastport, Maine, Dr. Harris." In the Harris collection, Boston Museum 

 of Natural History, is one specimen bearing an "Eastport, Me.," label and the 

 manuscript number 1502, which is referred to in the- Harris manuscript catalogue 

 as, "Cicindela Raiana H. ms. spreta Lee. Ann. Lye. N.Y. IV. 177. Eastport, 

 Me., Dr. J.Ray, 1836." This is the specimen referred to by Mr. E. D. Harris 

 in a letter to me as the "companion specimen" to the one in the LeConte col- 

 lection. I examined this (Harris collection) specimen, which still bears the 



October, 1920 



