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which inhabits Hlce situations. It is quite shy and has been taken 

 several times at electric lights. 



C. macra Lee. In Kansas has been taken by Professor Popenoe, 

 in the same localities and under the same conditions as ciiprasce7is. 

 In Iowa I have found it on river bars, especially when a thin coat of 

 mud overlies the surfice. It also appears occasionally on roads, July 

 and August. Electric lights attract it very readily, in fact, I get most 

 of my material at Iowa City by searching near the lights. The pecu- 

 liar attitude noted wnder purifana is also .shared by this insect. 



C. wapleri Lee. Mr. Soltau took this species at Covington, Louis- 

 iana, "on the snow-white sand banks of a little stream which flows 

 through a beautiful country covered with timber, mostly pine. Along 

 the stream, however, there is plenty of other vegetation, oak, magno- 

 lia, sweet gum, holly and so on. 1 have taken the insects in May and 

 June, never earlier nor later. All occurred in two spots only, though 

 I traveled up and down the stream for a long distance. The beetles 

 would dart around, more in the shade towards the sloping bank than 

 close to the water's edge. They are less shy than some of the tigers." 



C blanda Dej. Said to occur on shores of rivers in Georgia and 

 North Carolina. 



C. sperata Lee. This beetle frequents river banks in the southwest. 

 I took it in July at Columbus, Texas, on sand bars in the Colorado 

 River. At Albuquerque, New Mexico, it came in numbers to electric 

 lights during July. At Luna, a small station on the Atlantic and 

 Pacific R. R., a few miles west of Albuquerque, I found it quite 

 abundant on the shores of a little pond. The green, reddish cupreous 

 and brownish forms were all swarming together. Mr. Roland Hay- 

 ward took it at Aztec, Animas Valley, New Mexico, in July. Both 

 the ordinary form and a greenish variety occurred on the muddy 

 shores of a tributary to the Animas River. In California, Mr. Fall 

 has found it rather plentifully along the sandy or muddy flats of the 

 Colorado River in June and July. It was not very difificult of capture. 



C. gabbii Horn. Dr. Blaisdell found it in-August at San Diego, 

 California, in August, on alkaline flats about sloughs near the bay, 

 frequenting bare areas between patches of beach-berry and Salicornia. 

 Often occurred with latesignata and hirticollis. Moderately shy. Mr. 

 Fall says it is rare on Long Beach, while Mr. Dunn reports it from 

 mud flats at Wilmington, California. Mr. Fall further remarks that so 



