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our work through the day, but on coming back about six o'clock 

 P. M., I saw a few more running around. They hold the body 

 high up from the ground and get over the ground at a good rate, 

 looking as if they ran on tiptoe, if we may use such an expression 

 in speaking of insects. I gathered these into the fold, and, as 

 soon as supper was over, a search in the grass disclosed a num- 

 ber of them hanging to the blades a little distance from the ground, 

 apparently feeding, and others taking their evening exercise. 

 Before I left the place I had an opportunity to spend an entire 

 day collecting, and I found that they were all hidden during the 

 middle of the day, but came out to feed or run around in the 

 morning and evening, staying out in the morning until about nine 

 o'clock and coming out again about five o'clock P. M. I never 

 saw this species at any other place, though I looked for it care- 

 fully in many different localities. The captures were made early 

 in August. 



Another ugly species, from an aesthetic point of view, is Megetra 

 vittata, a near ally of our Cysteodemus, but with shorter and less 

 inflated wing covers, which do not cover the abdomen. Dried 

 specimens do not give a good idea of the clumsy unwieldliness of 

 the living females of this species, which are so distended with 

 eggs and food, that it seems almost impossible for them to move. 

 They do move, however, though they have not the speed of the 

 preceding species, the abdomen dragging on the ground. The 

 males are more active, and in running lift the body high up like 

 the Cysieodemris. The first specimen I saw of Megetra was a 

 male, which ran across the platform at Coolidge, N. Mex., July 

 4, 1888. Next year I looked carefully for the species for nearly 

 a whole day without success, when about four o'clock P. M. I 

 noticed some dark objects in a "greasewood" bush; I went over 

 to investigate, and found a number of these insects feeding on the 

 leaves and others just climbing up the stems.. When I counted 

 up the catch I found that I had over forty specimens of both 

 sexes. This was about the 12th of September, and this month 

 is probably their pairing-time, as I took only isolated specimens 

 at other times. 



Meloe sublczvis is found at the same time, and in company with 

 the two species mentioned, but seems to be rarer, as I found only 

 about a dozen in all. M. impresstis I took in May at Cheyenne^ 

 Wyo., feeding on low plants in the early part of the day. M. 

 americanus occurred at Bismarck, Dak., in August, feeding in 

 the middle of the day. 



