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I. Cicindela purpurea Oliv, 



1. graminea sch. 



a. graminea, var. (Utah, Or., etc.) 



b. lanta Casey. 



c. cimarrona Lee. (green). 



2. audubonii Lee. 



c. cimarrona Lee. (black) . 



d. plutonica Casey. 

 IL C limbalis Klug. 



1. amcena Lee. 



a. spreta Lee. (?) 



6. denverensis var. (markings complete) . 

 in. C transversa Leng. 



2. splendida Hentz. 



c. ludoviciana Leng. 



d. dewt^erewsis Casey. 



A careful search was made on May 21 for scutellaris and 

 generosa in sandy fields along the Missouri river, opposite 

 St. Charles; but while vulgaris and repanda were abundant, 

 no sign could be found of the two species sought. The only 

 possible explanation is that it was too late in season for the 

 one and too early for the other, although the two occur to- 

 gether under like circumstances in May at Topeka. 



The most exciting experience of the season was the taking 

 of a series of unipunctata, while collecting with my father at 

 Crevecoeur lake, just west of St. Louis, June 6. Arriving 

 rather early in the morning we descended the steep bluff 

 through timber to the edge of the lake, taking a number of 

 sexguttata as we did so. I spent most of the forenoon in an 

 aggravating attempt to scoop up a few of the cuprascens that 

 ran tantalizingly over the wet mud, without both sinking to the 

 shoulders in the mire and engulfing each specimen in a net 

 full of it when I chanced to sweep half an inch too low. Hav- 

 ing by sheer stratagem accomplished the capture of a few of 

 the "critters," and fewer still of hirticollis, I was ready and 

 glad to retire to the woods for the noon repast, and to inci- 

 dentally disencumber myself from the mud. 



From the spring we ascended the bluff by a narrow foot- 

 path bordered by herbs and creepers. Half way up I engaged 

 in hasty pursuit of a "tiger" that ran across a wide place in 

 the path. I naturally supposed it to be jmnctulata, but in my 

 fingers the peculiar appearance arrested me, and with a flash 

 of consciousness I recognized the insect whose biography I 

 had read many times. Shouting "unipunctata! unipunctata!" 



