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prairies. He gets it from April to June, and again, in smaller num- 

 bers, in the fall. The brown eastern {own. generosa Dej.,is rather 

 abundant at Iowa City and Independence, Iowa, on sandy roads or 

 flats, associating with C. lecontei, but much more wary and difficult of 

 capture. At Chicopee, Massachusetts, Mr. Knab finds it abundantly 

 in bare sandy places in April, May, June and October. C. vetiusta 

 Lee, catalogued as a variety, is now claimed by Mr. H. C. Fall as a 

 good species. I found it at Denver, flying with formosa, which it 

 greatly exceeded in numbers. At Bismarck, North Dakota, it was 

 rather common early in September, along sandy roads through the 

 Missouri bottom. 



C. latesignata Lee. I found it abundant on Coronado Beach at 

 San Diego, California, in August. It flew on the white sand above 

 the immediate reach of the tide. Dr. Blaisdell took it also in April 

 and May, often in company with hirticollis, gabbii and hcemorrhagica, 

 on beaches, or sometimes on alkaline flats near sloughs. Mr. Fall 

 says it occurs throughout the whole year but most commonly in mid- 

 summer. The variety tenuicincta Schaupp, was found by Dr. Blais- 

 dell at San Diego under the same conditions as the type. 



C.fulgida Say. 1 found this species at Albuquerque, New Mexico, 

 in September, on a flat sandy spot a mile from the river and over- 

 grown with short, scattered grass clumps and a {&^ weeds. Near Lin- 

 coln, Nebraska, they were once common in the great alkaline flat 

 locally known as the " salt-basin," where I saw them flying early in 

 May. They are less agile than many of the tigers. Dr. Williston 

 records it as "abundant in western Kansas and southern Wyoming, 

 frequenting upper banks contiguous but at some distance from water 

 among buffalo grass. Quick of flight." The form willistoni Lee, 

 is perhaps entitled to specific rank, at least so contend some of our 

 Kansas brothers. A note kindly sent me by the discoverer, after 

 whom it was named, reads thus: "The only place that I found it 

 was at the end of Lake Como, Wyoming, an alkaline lake. They 

 occur almost exclusively by themselves on the bare alkaline mud. 

 They are very wild and difficult to capture, fairly abundant but 

 isolated. My recollection is that no other species were found with 

 them. My specimens were taken early in June, 1878. Not a single 

 specimen was found elsewhere in the vicinity and it will not live 

 among grass or vegetation like its nearly related forms." 



