ZOOLOGY, ETC. 199 
The Verdigris valley in Wilson county yielded a number of desirable things to 
the collector of coleoptera. April 20 to 30 marks the appearance of Lachnosterna 
ealceata Lec., the most common scarabeid in that region. In favored localities, 
on still evenings, they swarm over the tender shoots of the young oaks. By jar- 
ring these, dozens of the insects fall to the ground, and by the use of the lantern 
are easily picked up and transferred to the cyanide jar. Other Lachnosterna 
occurring at about this time are hornii Smith, gibbosa Burm., crenulata Frch., 
vehemens Horn, and crinita Burm. At about the same time, upon a species of 
dock that grows over bottom land, can be taken numbers of the beautiful Phyto- 
nomus eximius Lec. They are very shy, and drop quickly to the ground on the 
» firstalarm. The open mouth of the cyanide bottle should be under them before 
the plant is touched. From the opening leaf-buds of the young hickories may 
be beaten Conotrachelus nenuphar Herbst. and afjinis Boh.; and the sap from 
stumps of freshly cut hickory trees attracts numbers of Colastus semitectus 
Say, Soronia undulata Say, Perthalycra murrayi Horn, Pocadius helvolus 
Er., Cryptarcha concinna Mels., and Bactridium striatum Lec. Under stones 
near the bluffs bordering the valley may be found rather sparingly Pasimachus 
ealifornicus Chd., and, resting under the same shelter, an occasional Diplo- 
taxis corvina Lec. While collecting over the tree-covered stony knoll near 
Benedict, in this county, in September, 1896, I took a single fresh specimen of 
Nomaretus cavicellis Lec., the only speciraen of this beautiful carabid I ever 
took south of the Kansas river at Manhattan. 
Collecting at Salina, Kan., in 1884 and 1885, yielded a number of apions, 
identified by Mr. H. C. Fall of Pasadena, Cal. Among them were Apion seg- 
nipes Say, rather common; atlenuatum Smith, grisewm Smith, and occident- 
ale Fall, MS., occurring rarely, and all new to the Kansas list. On the Kansas 
and Nebraska line, near Superior, Neb., in the latter part of May, 1895, I took 
Apion minor Smith, spinipes Fall, MS., and nebraskense Fall, MS., a few 
specimens of each. Near Rago, Kingman county, Kansas, August 15, 1896, I 
took a half dozen specimens of Apion modestum Smith, a species also new to 
the list of Kansas coleoptera. In the same locality I took Anthonomus mo- 
leculus Casey, Orthoris crotchii Lec., and Pseudohazis farcta Lec. 
Some seventy-five miles southwest of Rago, at Belvidere, Kan., I took, August 
16, numbers of Plectrodera scalator Say. This handsome borer was easily taken 
about sunset on the leaves and twigs of young willows and cottonwoods. Other 
desirable species taken at this locality were: Lappus lividus Casey, Mitostylus 
tenuis Lec., Anthonomus tectus Lec., Cewliodes asper Lec., Zygogramma 
disrupta Rogers, Zygogramma heterothece Linell. 
Cicindela violacea Fab., the beautiful blue or green tiger beetle, is taken in 
May or June in the wooded valleys of eastern Kansas. I took two or three speci- 
mens near Benedict, Wilson county, southeastern Kansas, last season. Have 
never taken it west of Manhattan, at the junction of Big Blue and Kansas rivers. 
