ZOOLOGY 79 



HEMIPTERA 



Chelinidea vittigera, Uhl. 



LEPIDOPTERA 



At ry tone taxiles, Edwards. 



POPULUS LONGIFOLI A SOCIETY 



This is of such small area and is so strictly limited in its 

 distribution to the immediate vicinity of the streams that its 

 insect fauna is in the main that of the Pinus ponderosa Ass'n. 

 The following Coleoptera, however, seem characteristic: 



Blapstinus sp. 



Eleodes extricata, Say. A peculiarly mountain type, none 

 having been taken from the mesa. 



Melanotus tissilis, Gyle. 



Monilema annulatum, Say. One only. 



Tricolepsis inornata. 



BOY-ELDER SOCIETY 



The remarks made above concerning the Long-leaved Pop. 

 lar Soc. apply also here; nevertheless the following clearly 

 belong here. 



Cicendela oregona, Lee. An immense swarn of this 

 species was encountered in July 1909 in Canon de Guadelope 

 on the Sandia Reservation. They were collected along the 

 stream and for several rods each stone averaged at least two 

 dozen per sq. ft. of area. There must have been several tens 

 of thousands of beetles in the assemblage. The upper parts 

 of the stream had recently gone dry and this may have caused 

 the beetles to congregate around the remaining water. 



Leptocoris trivittatus. This "Box-elder Bug" has followed 

 its host to Albuquerque but is not as abundant there. It is 

 by no means confined to the tree or its immediate vicinity, 

 however but occurs on the very top of the Sandia Range. It 

 is active as early as Mar. 11, beside the snow drifts in the 

 mountains. 



MEADOWS 



In the Jeinez Mts. in this association there are mesophytic 

 meadows along the streams where grow in profusion such 

 northern plants as Rudbeckia, blue violets (scarce in the San- 

 dias), Solidago, Malva, timothy (Phleum) 



Here the following were collected, mostly along the Rio 

 Cebolla. 



