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far as his experience goes, all the tigers of southern California are 

 found in damp situations, none occurring along roads nor in dry fields. 



C. hirtilabris Lee. Mr. Schwarz collected it in Florida where it 

 occurs on sandy soil in pine woods or on sandy paths through mead- 

 ows. June. 



C. gratiosa Gue'r. Taken by Mr. Soltau, running over sand in the 

 hills covered with scrub oak, at Spring Hill, a residence portion of 

 Mobile, Alabama. 



C. lepida Dej. Very widely distributed, but local and usually not 

 abundant. Mr. Kemp takes it at Avalon and Piermont, New Jersey, 

 on white sand hills along the coast, just beyond the tide line. He 

 finds it mostly on hot sunny days in July, quite wary and difficult to 

 see on account of its color so closely resembling that of the sand. 

 Professor Popenoe takes it sing y in dry, sandy river bottoms and 

 fields, among grass and weeds, in Shawnee and Riley Counties, Kan- 

 sas, during June and July. In Nebraska Professor Bruner found it 

 restricted to the bare sand of "blow-outs " in the sand-hill country. 

 At Iowa City it is occasionally found on a curious sand-flat a short 

 distance north of town. It is readily attracted to lights. I have 

 found it at street lamps in Iowa City and Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

 Professor Snow has a lot collected under like conditions in Douglas 

 County, Kansas. The most interesting experience of this sort, how- 

 ever, is that related to me by Professor W. H. Harshbarger, regarding 

 his collecting the species in Topeka, Kansas. He writes: "I have 

 taken about one hundred, mostly males, around the low arc lights in 

 front of stores. I invariably found them at some distance from the 

 lamp close to the wall. They seemed to shun the bright light and 

 never got out on to the walk as do some others. The most fruitful 

 place was just around a corner from a light, where they were in semi- 

 darkness. Most of the captures were made in July and August, a few 

 in June. They seemed sluggish and easy to take. I never caught 

 one in daylight though I looked for them along the river and have 

 collected over the entire region here." 



C. kfuniscata Lee. This is an active little sjiecies which I found 

 rather commonly running and flying in hot sunshine by the sides of 

 the Southern Pacific R. R. tracks near Tucson, Arizona, in August. It 

 frequented nearly bare spots which had been more or less welted by 

 recent rains, but far from any permanent water supply. I also found 



