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Wickham from St. George, Utah, as a variety of hsemorrhag- 

 ica, or, better, of carthagena, and not of mfiventHs. 



The specimens of hemorrhagica were found on the muddy 

 margins of pools along roads near the river, in company with 

 brown sperata and an occasional micans. On bare spots in 

 pastures, where the ground was slightly saline and the grass 

 short, fulgida occurred sparingly, and on sand-bars in the 

 Rio Grande were found sperata, ponderosa, repanda, and vul- 

 gaHs. With the last were taken several fine examples of the 

 variety obliquata, which were decidedly cupreous in color, and 

 the markings so broad as to in some cases very much resemble 

 those of venusta. 



On April 1, 1905, I went to St. Louis to accept a scholarship 

 in the Shaw School of Botany, which is connected with the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden. Sunday being my only day of 

 leisure there, I took advantage of the chance to make short 

 suburban detours in quest of the game of my passion — the 

 tiger-beetles. 



On April 9, while following a dry, rocky ravine down from 

 the lightly timbered hills at Meramec Highlands, I ran across 

 several specimens of sexguttata sunning on the flat rocks and 

 dry leaves. When disturbed they flew either up or down the 

 ravine, or circled back to the same spot. Their occurrence 

 seemed unusual as I had never found the species earlier than 

 May 25 at Topeka. They had evidently hibernated under the 

 rocks and leaves, and the unusually warm weather had brought 

 them to activity. They were all smaller than the same species 

 taken at Topeka, and all 8-dotted. One specimen was a rich 

 blue in color. A single transversa was seen while following a 

 road back up the hill. On the following Sunday, which was 

 cold and dismal, specimens of sexguttata were found torpid 

 under stones and the bark of logs in timber. 



On April 23 a careful search was made for limbalis and 

 transversa on banks of railroad cuts and gullies. Only two 

 specimens were taken, one a typical transversa, the other al- 

 most immaculate, with head and thorax scarcely bronzed. 



On May 7, two weeks later, while walking carelessly along 

 a road entering the wooded bluffs at Fern Glen, a few miles 

 west of St. Louis, my attention was called to a tiger-beetle 

 that arose from the road before me. In the net it proved to 

 be a beautiful transversa. A few steps further on another fell 

 prey to the net, and as I advanced higher into the bluffs and 



