108 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 
Her methods are so fascinating and wonderful. As I look back 
over the past thirty years, much of which time has been spent 
in fields and woods, it brings back only one regret, and that is, 
that I can not go over it all again. It has been one long round 
of health-giving pleasure. Our beautiful woodland, with its 
wealth of varied bird, insect and plant life, is a revelation to those 
whose eyes become trained to see and understand nature’s beau- 
ties. During the warmer months the forest is alive with insects, 
all striving to accomplish the great purpose with which they are 
endowed, the perpetuation of the species. Many of them em- 
ploying the most intelligent and cunning devices to accomplish 
this end. 
In answer to the often repeated question “what books shall IJ 
get to help in a study of Coleoptera,’ I enumerate some of those 
which I have found most useful. The word “Jyrans.,’ often used, 
refers to the Transactions of the American Entomological Society 
of Philadelphia. Such papers as are not out of print can be fur- 
nished by the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Some 
general works that are very desirable to students are classification 
of the “Coleoptera of North America,” and “Rhyncophora,” by 
LeConte and Horn; Packard’s “Guide to the Study of Insects ;” 
Comstock’s “Manual ;” papers on North American Coleoptera, by 
Maj. Thos. L. Casey, published in annals of New York Academy 
of Sciences, and New York Entomological Soc.; “Fifth Annual 
Report of the Entomologist of Minn.,” by our lamented friend 
Prof. Lugger (his reports on the other orders are very valuable 
also). 
This list enumerates 64 families, 828 genera and 1,888 species, 
and describes 6 new ones. 
CINCINDELIDZ. 
‘igen Beetles: 
TETRACHA. 
. T. virginica Linn. 
CICINDELA. 
unipunctata Fab. 
. sexguttata Fab. 
purpurea Oliv. 
formosa Say. 
generosa De}. 
vulgaris Say. 
repanda De}. 
hirticollis Say. 
punctulata Fab. 
cuprascens Lec. 
marginipennis De}. 
omelelelelele 
elelelele 
. purpurea was taken here years ago, and again recently. 1 
never saw Tetracha virginica here, until 1899. June 28, 19009, 
they were flying and running about under the electric lights by 
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