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nearly always considerable of a breeze on this mesa, but 

 during this time (late Aug. and Sept.) there had been no 

 violent winds. Indeed a violent wind does not seem to spread 

 them as far as a gentle breeze, as in the former case they 

 seek shelter low down among the herbage and do not venture 

 forth at all. With a gentle brisk wind blowing one can walk 

 at such times in comparative peace across the mesa, while on 

 a more quiet day each step disturbs from a score to fifty or 

 more pests. 



The city of Albuquerque should by all means take the 

 trouble to treat their breeding places with oil. The present 

 neglect is a sad reproach to this hustling and otherwise up- 

 to-date city. 



Sarcophaga and Calliphora, the blue-bottle or flesh-fly and 

 the blow-fly are also too abundant here. This arises from 

 the habit universal in the Southwest of dumping dead 

 animals out on the mesa instead of burying them, a practice 

 that should be stopped. 



SPECIES OF VERY WIDE DISTRIBUTION AND 



NOT CHARACTERISTIC OF ANY PARTICULAR 



FORMATION 



* Chrysochus auratus, Fab. Collected from North Sandia 

 Mt. at an altitude between ten and eleven thousand feet and 

 also at Belen at an altitude of less than five thousand feet. 

 On Apocynnm at the latter place. 



Euphoria inda, L. From the valley at Albuquerque to the 

 Yellow Pine Assn., and doubtless higher. The adults are 

 particularly fond of the blossoms of the thistle. 



Hippodamia convergens, Guer. Abundant everywhere 

 from the top of the highest mountains to the lowest parts of 

 the Territory. In the vicinity of Albuquerque it is. the only 

 common lady-beetle, there being at least one hundred of 

 these to one of all other species combined and the proportion 

 is scarcely less in the mountains. The markings and size of 

 this beetle are extremely variable but the writer was able to 

 detect no correlation between the different degrees of 

 development of the markings and the habitat. 



Monoxia consputa Lee. From the top of the Sandia Mts. 

 from beside a snowbank on Oct 30 to the lowest parts of the 



