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mens at Lambert's Soda Springs, Tuolumne Co., eleven miles from 

 the base of Mt. Conners, near the borders of the meadows." (Fuchs, 

 in lift.). 



Telracha caroliiia Linn. During the day this species ma}' be found 

 under stones or logs in rather open damp places. It seems to have a 

 great fondness for the vicinity of water, being frequently met with in 

 extremely muddy situations, even resting in the cracks of sun-baked 

 clay which has "caked " on the surfaces of mud-pools. At night it 

 roams about i" search of prey and may be taken freely at light. In 

 Arizona I have seen dozens of them about gas-lamps during the earlier 

 hours of darkness. It is very widely distributed, occurring in the 

 West Indies, South and Central America, and extending its range 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the southern United States. My 

 specimens were all captured in July and August. 



T. virginica Linn. Has much the same habits as the preceding. I 

 have found it under stones along the banks of water-courses, and it is 

 said to come in great numbers to street lamps in the southeastern 

 states, I took it at Nashville, Tennessee, in August. 



Cicindela pilatei Gue'r. Said to be found in woods in the lake 

 region of Louisiana and Florida, coming sometimes to camp-fires at 

 night. The variety belfragei Salle' has been found commonly near 

 Salina, Kansas, by Mr. A. W. Jones, who has taken it by overturning 

 hay-cocks in fields at an altitude of less than fifty feet above the 

 Smoky Hill River bottom. He says that it is seldom seen during the 

 heat of the day, but appears in the roads about four o'clock in the 

 afternoon, and, like Tetracha, is crepuscular (Bull. Bklyn. Ento. Soc, 

 VII., p. 75). Prof. E. A. Popenoe writes me that he has taken the 

 species on dry loam soils in cornfields at cultivating time in Riley 

 (bounty, Kansas. It occurred on reasonably clean ground, not in 

 swarms but straggling. Mr. Hugo Soltau collected it near Covington, 

 Louisiana, by using a lantern. 



C. celeripes Lee. A wonderful little species, almost indistinguish- 

 able from a large ant when running. It was taken in abundance at 

 one time by Prof. Popenoe, at one limited locality in Riley County, 

 Kansas. The soil was dry, sandy loam, covered with short-cropped 

 grass and was open prairie land My own experience with the insect 

 is rather limited. Several years ago I took one specimen among short 

 grass by a little stream near Iowa City. This summer (1898) I found 



