426 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



These species of Cicindela — punctulata, cuprascens, and macra — 

 are found quite often in eastern Kansas at electric lights ; but a fourth 

 kind, lepida, is a rare visitant at the lights, and is seldom seen by day. 

 On the evening of June 22 I took at the arc lights at Topeka three 

 specimens of this beautiful white insect, the first I had seen. A few 

 more were taken under like conditions in July. 



July 4 was spent at Lakeview, near Lawrence, where we found 

 macra in extreme abundance along the edge of the lake. With it we 

 found repanda, plentiful as usual, and a single specimen each of 

 duodecimguttata and vulgaris, the last rather out of season. We also 

 found punctulata and formosa var. on sand by the station. 



On the 12th of July, while collecting along the creek bed at Vine- 

 wood park, near Topeka, we came across numbers of duodecimguttata 

 by the edge of the water at the foot of a high clay bank on the east 

 side of the stream. They associated with repanda, but seemed much 

 inclined to stay upon the bank, where the clay was barely moist, while 

 the latter was restricted to the wet mud. 



In the latter part of the month we took a number of Tetracha vir- 

 ginica in an open meadow under cow-chips, where they had hidden to 

 pass the day. 



Probably the most valuable catch of the season was made at Leona, 

 in Doniphan county, August 10, 11, and 12. While walking through 

 the woods, at about eight o'clock in the morning, we ran across a 

 specimen of violacea, the beautiful blue or violet variety of sexgut- 

 tata. It was running along the road, unable to fly because of the 

 morning dampness. We at once set in careful search, and took with 

 ease a few more of the beauties, with thrice as many of the green forms 

 of sexguttata. We repeated the performance the two following days 

 with equally good success. During the three days' stay we each took 

 fifty of the forms of sexguttata, including a few types, and about ten 

 of the brilliant violacea. The percentage here was one blue one to 

 every five of the green, while at Ottawa among nearly three hundred 

 greens not a single blue one was taken, thus indicating that violacea 

 is rather a local race. A number of Tetracha virginica were taken in 

 the same woods under sticks and chips, and a few more crawling along 

 roads in the evening. 



Much time was spent in the fall of 1901, especially October, in col- 

 lecting the numerous forms of scutellaris, formosa, and vulgaris, 

 amongst the stunted Kafir-corn in the sandy bottom lands of the Kaw. 

 One vulgaris taken was so green in color that it was at first mistaken 

 for graminea. 



During the same month we found our first examples of purpurea, 

 and the western forms of limbalis and transversa, which differ from 

 amoena and splendida only by the red head and thorax. 



