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lected in a sandy field near the Ninnescah river. Several formosa, 

 vulgaris and repanda were found along a sandy road by the river, 

 between high weeds. On sand-bars in the stream, repanda swarmed 

 by thousands, and several macra and cuprascens, and one duodecim- 

 guttata, were taken. 



At Wichita, September 28, a number of j)nrpurea and grarainea 

 were found on bare spots in the high prairie ; and in a railroad cut 

 east of town the same species, with the addition of splendida, amcena, 

 and vulgaris were taken in numbers. 



At Topeka, in March, 1903, a dozen specimens of purpurea and 

 graminea, a single audubonii (a female, in copula with a male pur- 

 pureo-graminea), and two of the western limbalis, were found on a 

 clay bank in company with splendida. 



On the 19th of May my chum and I had the good fortune to ac- 

 company Dr. F. H, Snow on a trip to Englewood, Clark county, Kan- 

 sas, where six weeks were devoted entirely to collecting insects. 



During the first two weeks there we found fulgida in abundance 

 on bare spots along a salt creek, where it was common until the last 

 week of June, being gradually replaced by circumpicta. Several speci- 

 mens of denverensis, the bright green form of splendida, were taken 

 in May on a clay bank ; and three or four graminea, with a single audu- 

 bonii, were found on the prairie ; while scutellaris and formosa were 

 quite common in May and early June in sandy localities. With the 

 latter was taken a specimen of venusta. It might be remarked that 

 the scutellaris and formosa were nearly all found along low, sandy 

 roads, practically none being seen in the barren sand-hills, where one 

 would most expect to find them. 



One of the best discoveries of the season was the finding of C. 

 knausii, a variety of nevadica recently named for a well-known Kan- 

 sas collector by Mr. Chas. W. Leng, in his "Revision of the N. A. 

 Cicindelidae." On the 6th of June this species appeared along the 

 muddy margins of the creek, becoming more abundant each day, 

 until inside of a week it fairly swarmed. A few green or blue speci- 

 mens were taken, at an average of about one green to a hundred or 

 more of the brown. 



In a week's time after the appearance of knausii, apicalis, W. Horn's 

 variety of togata, was found on a broad alkali flat about a mile from 

 the creek. This also became very common ; and on June 20, a week 

 after the appearance of apicalis, the first specimens of circumpicta 

 were taken in company with it on the white saline flat. By June 26 

 circumpicta was the more abundant of the two. It appeared in two 

 forms, the green and the cupreous, which were about equal in abun- 

 dance. The intense heat and dazzling sunlight reflected by the 

 smooth white ground made it difficult to collect these two species. 



