JOURNAL 



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Vol. XX. March, 1912. No. 1. 



THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF CICIN- 

 DELID^ IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA.^ 



By Charles \V. Leng, 

 West New Brighton, N. Y. 



Introduction. 



My special interest in the tiger beetles dates from the time when 

 Schaupp was writing his Revision in 1883, at which time I, as his pupil 

 in German and entomology, was permitted to watch the progress of 

 his work. That interest, always continued, received a special impetus 

 from the publication of Professor Wickham's " Habits of American 

 Cicindelidje " in 1899, and I commenced to gather data in regard to 

 habits and distribution and to view the subject from other standpoints 

 than the purely taxonomic one from which my 1902 Revision was 

 mainly prepared. With the advent of Dr. Lutz, considerations of the 

 environment and evolution of our insects have been constantly kept 

 before us, and have assumed an importance in our discussions that is 

 largly responsible for the preparation of this paper. In the meantime 

 also, the great work of Walther Horn which has been partly published 

 in Genera Insectorum, the investigations of Norman Griddle and of 

 Victor E. Shelford on the larvK, the zealous collecting of Warren 

 Knaus and others, have all tended to uncover hidden facts ; and finally 

 the untiring labors of our fellow member, Edward D. Harris, have 

 culminated in the publication of his " Catalogue," in which the dis- 

 tribution of the species in his collection is minutely stated. So that it 



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