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at the journey's end it was a pleasure to meet a fellow-entomolo- 

 gist in the person of Prof. C. H. Tyler Townsend, who had 

 already been in the field for some months. His aid in securing 

 accommodations and readily given information as to the collect- 

 ing grounds were of material advantage and greatly appreciated. 

 He had already located many of the little tropical oases — if we 

 may give them that name — and had made large and interesting 

 collections in the interests of the Division of Entomology at 

 Washington. 



As a result of the explorations carried on, many species not 

 hitherto recognized as inhabitants of the United States must be 

 added to our lists. A few of these may be mentioned here, the 

 remainder will be referred to in the author's report on the Cole- 

 optera of this valley.* 



A number of Cicindelidae were met with, the most interesting 

 of which occurred at Point Isabel along the extensive beaches 

 and salt mud-flats in that neighborhood. C. severa, iogata, cir- 

 cumpicta and pamphila all inhabit this little strip of sea-coast in 

 company with some more familiar forms. C. pamphila is re- 

 markable, from the fact that the elytra exhibit much the same 

 range of variation in ground color as that displayed by the better 

 known C. sperala. 



Among the Carabidae, mention should be made of the occur- 

 rence of Calosoma aurocinctum Chaud., a species resembling our 

 common scrutator, but a little smaller and of a brighter clearer 

 green with less pronounced elytral striae and broader, flatter in- 

 terspaces. It is a Mexican form and will probably not be found 

 much to the north of Brownville. A large colony of the hitherto 

 very rare Pogonus texanus was exposed on turning over a pal- 

 metto log lying on a broad mud flat at the Point. A number 

 disappeared at once into seams opened by the sun, but quite a 

 supply was secured. In heavy thickets where the vines made 

 their closest tangles. Agra oblongopundata Chev. was occasion- 

 ally beaten from some thick mass of foliage. It is an outre look- 

 ing insect of slender form, the prothorax elongate, nearly conical, 

 the narrow elytra deeply punctured in rows. The original lo- 

 cality was Vera Cruz, Mexico. Micragra cenea is another hitherto 

 extra limital species ranging through Central America to Brazil. 

 It is a small greenish or black-bronzed insect, something like 



* Now publishing in the " Bulletin of Natural History," State University of Iowa. 



