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In the Spring of 1892, Lawrence Bruner, of the University of 

 Nebraska, made a trip to the northwestern part of the State and 

 took a few specimens in Box, Butte County. A few have also 

 been taken near Alliance, Neb., on the line of the B. and M. 

 Railroad. In the Fall of 1892 I learned, incidentally, that Mr. 

 J. W. Vandeventer, a graduate of the State Agricultural College, 

 Manhattan, Kans., had collected this species in southwest Ne- 

 braska. In answer to a letter of inquiry he wrote as follows : 



"In May, 1888, I took a Sunday stroll from Imperial, Neb., . 

 to the Frenchman River, about six miles south of town. The 

 Spring had been very early, and the day was quite warm. About 

 a mile from the river, on a very sandy hillside, covered with a 

 thin growth of Yucca, bunch grass and a few weeds, I noticed 

 my first specimen of C. limbata. It was very active and seemed 

 to have a decided preference for the cleanest, sandiest ground, 

 avoiding that covered with vegetation. Associated with it was a 

 species about half its size, of a deep blue color, entirely without 

 markings. I saw perhaps half a dozen members of each species 

 on the hillside. 



' At the foot of the hill there was a dry water course having a 

 channel, perhaps six feet wide, composed entirely of clean sand 

 without vegetation. Here I found both species in considerable 

 numbers, though the limbata were much the more numerous. I 

 followed the water course to the river and found them very plen- 

 tiful all along it. The holes of C. limbata were also plentiful, 

 and I noticed many of them fly out of and also into them." 



Wishing to collect this species personally, I made the trip the 

 latter part of May, 1893, reaching Imperial, the county seat of 

 Chase County, by way of the B. and M. Railroad, from Superior, 

 and a branch road from Culbertson. Imperial is twenty-five 

 miles east of the Colorado line and some six miles north of the 

 Frenchman River, a pretty little stream of clear running water. 

 The town is on the open level; as you go south you strike the 

 sand hills, and for three miles before reaching the stream the 

 country is very broken. and hilly. I reached Imperial the morn- 

 ing of May 30th, and immediately started overland for the river. 

 The day was warm and the walking over sand hills not at all 

 pleasant. Bare sand was plentiful before reaching the stream, 

 but I saw and took no Cicindelidae, except an occasional scutel- 

 laris, formosa or repanda. I found no limbata, however, until I 



