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Moreover, both were swift runners, and apicalis was quite hard to see 

 because of its light color. Knausii was sometimes found near the 

 center of the flat, where the ground was moist, and fulgida was very 

 common along the margin, amongst the buffalo-grass. During the 

 last few days of June apicalis and circumpicta both appeared along 

 the salt creek, where fulgida had swarmed in May and early June. 



Vulgaris, repanda, punctulata and micans were more or less com- 

 mon everywhere about Englewood on bare ground. On sand-bars in 

 the Cimarron river ponderosa and knausii were quite plentiful, though 

 the latter seemed more at home along the muddy creeks and ponds. 

 With these a few specimens of cuprascens were also taken. 



A second Kansas University entomological expedition for 1903 

 made collections in Arizona during the months of July and August, 

 and, though very few cicindelids were taken as compared with the 

 preceding trip, a few are well worth mention. 



On July 21 a number of the beautiful green form of sperata were 

 taken, during a short delay on the way, at Caddoa, Colo. The first 

 one was found on the dry prairie with pulchra and micans. A few 

 more were taken near wet spots along a road by the river, in company 

 with micans. The most of the specimens, however, were found in a 

 large alkali mud-hole back of the station. The depression was about 

 six feet deep, and three or four rods long, with a floor of perfectly 

 white alkaline mud half an inch thick. Near the center were several 

 shallow pools of water, and around these ran the green sperata, con- 

 spicuous amongst the more somber brown forms of knausii, which 

 greatly outnumbered them. The finding of these two species together 

 was rather unusual ; but still more striking was the total absence of 

 the brown or cupreous forms of sperata, which usually predominate, 

 and in contrast the absence of the blue or green forms of knausii. 



Later, during the night, while the train changed crews at Albu- 

 querque, a number of the normal brown form of sperata, and one 

 cupreous, were picked up at the arc lights in front of the depot. 



At Martinez, or Congress Junction, Ariz., 3000 feet a. t., where 

 our journey ended, we took two very interesting species of "tigers," 

 an aberrant green form of nigrocserulea, and the dainty little desert- 

 loving lemniscata. Both kinds occurred by the margins of iDonds, 

 the one preferably on very wet mud, the other on any damp soil. 



Nigrocferulea was the less common of the two ; and though taken 

 in numbers on July 24 and 25, by the Ist of August the pond around 

 which it had occurred most abundantly was nearly dried up, and no 

 more of the desired beetles were to be found. This remarkable insect 

 somewhat perplexed the collectors. The females were quite robust) 

 of a rather dull green color, touched with brown on the head and 

 thorax, and with brilliant opalescent green reflections on the elytra, 



