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from the mesa, on other bare areas scattered over the valley, 

 and along certain irrigating ditches, lemniscata was quite com- 

 mon. In company with it I took one day a single small tiger- 

 beetle that thrilled me with excitement. The head and thorax 

 were brown and quite pubescent on the sides, while the elytra 

 were dull red with markings somewhat prolonged, but not 

 fused to form a vitta. The under side was less pubescent than 

 in lemniscata, but much more so than in viridisticta, so that 

 the insect was in many respects an ideal intermediate between 

 the two species. I at once presumed it to be a hybrid, and on 

 reaching camp announced the capture of a rare "Cicindela 

 lemnisticta." The following days were devoted to a careful 

 search for more of the hybrids, and as a result a very few more 

 found their way to the boxes. Two or three were also taken at 

 lamplight in the evening along with a lot of lemniscata. The 

 cherished hybrids on our return home turned out to be wick- 

 hami, but were none the less valuable. The markings consist 

 of apical lunule, produced in front, median band set in from the 

 margin and almost parallel to it ; and before the band a single 

 dot to indicate the posterior extremity of the humeral lunule. 

 The affinities tend as much toward lemniscata as toward viri- 

 disticta, for the legs show a strong tendency to be pale, in addi- 

 tion to the characters cited above. 



A blue specimen of hot-nii was brought to camp by a cow- 

 boy who had found it on the mesa. A search was made for 

 them, and two were seen on a damp, sloping stretch of the 

 mesa where the gravel had been covered by a thin soil washed 

 over it by recent rains. Several green santaclarse were taken 

 there, one pair in copula. A few days later, in the latter part 

 of August, a few more green santaclarse and black vulturina 

 were taken in the rolling grass-land on the east side of the 

 valley. They were extremely wary, and flew far when 

 alarmed. A day or so before our departure, on September 2, 

 two specimens of pulchra, of the unusual western form, with 

 complete markings, were taken near camp in company with 

 the still common pimeriana. 



