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been able to discover, Messrs. Leng, Liebeck, Davis, Johnson, Moffat, 

 Schaupp and Dr. Gould. The south has been almost entirely neg- 

 lected but for a chance item here and there in lists or other contri- 

 butions. 



All of the above writers iiave been consulted in the preparation of 

 the following pages. In addition I have had the pleasure of receiving 

 ready and valuable aid from most of our best known collectors of 

 Coleoptera. My own travels have thrown me in contact with a large 

 percentage of the described species of Cicindela and any statements 

 not otherwise credited may be considered to rest on my own responsi- 

 bility. While I have not in any case cited the place of publication of 

 items borrowed, I have nevertheless mentioned the name of the author, 

 except in a very few instances where the facts have been in circulation 

 for such a length of time as to have become general property and to 

 leave their original source in doubt. Most of the work is based on 

 communications by letter and I desire here to record my thanks to 

 many friends who so cordially responded to ray call for assistance. 



It is hoped that the article will serve as an aid to collectors who 

 may be visiting a strange country as well as prove of interest to those 

 who know most of our species of these most beautiful beetles only as 

 cabinet specimens. It may also answer to show what we still lack in 

 knowledge of certain forms. 



Amblychila cyli?idriformis Say. This species is said, by Professor 

 F. H. Snow, to hide during the day in burrows, especially those made 

 by the Kangaroo Rat. Soon after sundown they come forth to hunt 

 over their favorite grounds, the sloping clay-banks of western Kansas 

 They are slow in movement and appear to have no keen sense of sight, 

 trusting apparently to stumbling on their prey which consists of vari- 

 ous insects, particularly the Orthoptera and Lepidopterous larvae. Mr. 

 H. A. Brous says that they feed also on effete matter. 



A. baroni Rivers. I have seen only one specimen of this. It was 

 taken by Dr. Edw. D. Peters, Jr., from beneath a log l)ing in a rather 

 damp spot by a small mountain stream which follows a road in the 

 Pinal Mountains, north of Tucson, Arizona, June. Mr. Chas. Fuchs 

 writes me that the type was collected by O. T. Baron in Pima Co., 

 Arizona, at an elevation of 5000 feet. It was found dead in a canon. 



A picolominii Reiche. From Mr. Fuchs I learn that River's speci- 

 mens of this insect were taken at Peach Springs, Arizona. The Cali- 



