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specimen run across the path into the dead leaves by the side of it. 

 Mr. Nathan Reist informs me that he takes it in July near York Fur- 

 nace, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on little paths running through 

 wooded hills along the river. He says that instead of flying it creeps 

 under leaves and stones and is easily captured, though occurring only 

 singly or in pairs and not in company with any other species. Mr. 

 Geo. A Ehrmann of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, has given me the follow- 

 ing interesting data concerning his experience with this species, which 

 he finds only at Brown's Wood, near his home, between June 25 and 

 July 28: '• It is found only in uplands, always in the densest part of 

 the woods, concealed along the hard trodden paths where the color of 

 the insect corresponds with the gro ind. The edges of the paths are 

 usually lined with a scanty growth of gra'^s, intermingled with dry 

 leaves, sticks and stones It is the most difficult in-^ect I ever hunted, 

 and is, in my estimation, only caught bv chance. It occurs only 

 singly, and depends on its swiftness of foot for escape. I never take 

 it except on the calmest and sunniest days; when hunting in localities 

 where I know they are found 1 move carefully alorg the paths with 

 my sight centered six or eight feet ahead of me. ever alert for the least 

 motion. The instant I perceive a movement like the faintest shadow 

 1 drop onto the spot with one of my hands and nine times out of ten 

 secure the object. But three times out of the nine I catch either a 

 spider or a shadow — the latter has usually disappeared when I look 

 for it. It is out of the question to take C. iiuipuncfata with a net." 

 Mr. H. W. Wenzel says it is nocturnal. 



C. longilabris Say. I found it at Bayfield, Wisconsin, in paths or 

 roads running through woods, during the months of June and July. 

 It was seen but rarely and frequented spots where the ground was 

 beaten hard. Dr. J. L. Le Conte says that it frequents paths in 

 grassy and bushy places, taking refuge in herbage if disturbed The 

 variety laiircntii Schpp , is rather abundant in some parts of the Rocky 

 Mountain region of Colorado. I took it at Georgetown and Ouray 

 on stony banks or in roads and paths at some di'^tance from water 

 during the months of June and July. As a rule it is not wild and may 

 be captured with little difficulty, even without the use of a net. If 

 disturbed it usually flies rather heavily and for a short distance only, 

 so as to be readily tracked if it escapes the first time. C. perviridis 

 Schjjp., is found in the same situations as C. /aurenfii diV\d appears to 

 have the same habits. It is, however, also of wider range, Mr. Chas. 



