DETERMINATIONS OF SOME TEXAS COLEOPTERA, 

 WITH RECORDS. 



By Elbert S. Tucker, Museum Assistant in Systematic Entomology, 

 University of Kansas, Lawrence. 



ON account of personal interest in the insect fauna of Texas, 

 due mainly to my first entomological collecting trip in the 

 state ( to Galveston, in May, 1904, as a member of a party under 

 direction of Dr. F. H. Snow, for the University of Kansas), the 

 writer consented to identify some beetles from the collection of the 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, at College Station, 

 Brazos county, on the request of Prof. A. F. Conradf, then acting 

 state entomologist. As a motive for the work other than the ad- 

 vantage accruing to the college collection. Professor Conradi pro- 

 posed that a list of determinations thus obtained would be helpful 

 in making up a general list of the Coleoptera of Texas, and the 

 names and records herewith show the results of study of the speci- 

 mens which he furnished. All determinations were personally 

 made by comparison with named specimens in the collection of 

 beetles of the University of Kansas, together with the aid of litera- 

 ture, excepting those species so indicated in the list, where special 

 credit is given to the authority to whom the specimens were sub- 

 mitted in cases of uncertainty. With the exception of Balaninus 

 victoriensis Chitt., all of the beetles were collected in Texas, mostly 

 at the Agricultural and Mechanical College, to which institution 

 they have been returned, less a few duplicates retained by kind 

 permission. The student will notice that many dates of collecting 

 occurred in early spring and, in fact, winter months, which indi- 

 cates that where mild winters prevail a long season for insect 

 activity is permitted. 



The arrangement follows Henshaw's check-list by numbers when 



given. 



Family CiciNDELm^. 



19a Cicindela scutellaris Say, var. unicolor Dejean. Wellborn, Brazos 



river, March 22, 1904. 

 32 Cicindela vulgaris Say. Wellborn, Brazos river, March 22, 1904. 



Family Carabid^. 

 184 Calosoma lugubre Le Conte. College Station. 

 220 Scarites subterraneus Fabricius. College Station, March 31, 1904. 

 387 Bembidium variegatum Say. College Station, May 9, 1903. 



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