KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
. Lachnosterna infidelis, Horn. Not common. Wilson county and Mc- 
Pherson. May. 
. Lachnosterna hornii, Smith. Rare. Wilson county. May. 
53. Lachnosterna biimpressa, Smith. Rare. Specimen in National Mu- 
seum. Locality Manhattan. 
. Lachnosterna Knochii, Gyll. Common. Salina and McPherson. May. 
This species is usually mistaken for the more common rugosa. 
. Lachnosterna diffinis, Blanch. —rufiola Lec. University collection. 
. Lachnosterna implicita, Horn. Rare. Wilson county and Agricultural 
College collection. May. 
2. Lachnosterna balia, Horn. Rare. Agricultural College collection. 
Lachnosterna minor, Linell. New species, described from a single male 
specimen in pamphlet No. 1096, Proc. U. S. Nat’! Museum, Vol. xviit. 
Collected by F. F. Crevecoeur, Onaga, Kan. 
. Lachnosterna albina, Burm. Rare. Agricultural College collection. 
. Lachnosterna parvidens, Lec. Rare. Agricultural College collection. 
. Lachnosterna affabilis, Horn. Rare. Two males in collection of Dr. 
Horn; also in Agricultural College collection. 
. Stephanucha pilipennis, Kraatz. Medora, Reno county, Kansas. May. 
Taken on sand-dunes. 
. Microclytus gazellula, Hald. Wilson county. June. 
. Crepidodera longula, Horn. Taken on willow, in June and July, in Osage 
and Wilson counties. 
. Luperus brunneus, Cr. Wilson county. June. 
Blapstinus sp. Medora. May. 
. Blapstinus dilatatus, Lec. Taken in sand blow-outs near Medora. May. 
2. Blapstinus moestus, Melsh. Same as 7433. 
. Ammodonus fossor, Lec. Taken at Medora, Kan., in sand. May. 
. Hypophloeus cavus, Lec. Taken under hickory bark. Verdigris valley, 
north of Benedict. 
5. Apion robustum, Smith. Salina, Kan., on sunflower. 
3. Apion sordidum, Smith. Salina, Kan., on sunflower. 
. Apion griseum, Smith. Salina, Kan., on sunflower. 
. Apion attenuatum, Smith. Salina, Kan., on sunflower. 
Apion occidentale, Fall, Mss. Salina, Kan., on sunflower. 
Apion spinipes, Fall, Mss. Kansas, near Superior, Neb. May. Rare. 
Nebraskense, Fall, Mss. Kansas, near Superior, Neb. May. Rare. 
. Baris exigua, Casey. Kansas, near Superior, Neb. May. 
Rhyncholus sp. Larva burrows in decaying cottonwood ; beetles emerge in 
May and June. Can be taken in winter in larval burrows. Two other 
species occur with this, but none are described. 
THE DRILL HOLE AT: WICHITA. 
By J. R. Mean, Wichita, Kan. Read before the Academy January 3, 1896. 
In the year 1895, the city of Wichita voted $10,000 in bonds to drill one or 
more holes to ascertain what of value might be found beneath the city. Coal, 
salt, oil and gas were among the possibilities. 
A sample of each five feet in depth has been preserved in glass jars properly 
numbered. The hole is within the city limits, in the valley of the Arkansas, one- 
