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net to the desert for Coleoptera. Believe it was the first time the 

 net was not at hand. 



Of other Papilionidae noticed a few Catopsilia spec, of a lemon- 

 yellow, like eubule, but without markings on reverse side. It 

 had one ocellus, or rather discal spot on secondaries; devoid of 

 any other color or marking. I failed at first to secure any, taking 

 it for eubule, and after securing a couple failed to see more. It 

 could not have been agarithe; saw only two Meganostoma ca?sonia. 

 Papilio daunus occurred on mountains of central and northern 

 Arizona, flying high in the canyons. Papilio asteroides, I took 

 two or three in S. Arizona on high peaks, although I saw one 

 flying in the vicinity of Phoenix this Autumn within town limit. 

 Noticed a single specimen of Papilio bairdii feeding on flowers 

 of Wild Bergamot near Flagstaff, but could not capture the 

 prize. In Yavapai County took two examples of the large, 

 whitish Pyrgus ericetorum on flowers of Alfalfa. A few other 

 Hesperidae fell to my lot, which are at best local and rare: Ni- 

 so?iiades afranivs, Pholisora ceos, JVis. pacuvius, one Erycides 

 spec, and a number still undetermined. For naming I am under 

 obligations to Messrs. Wm. H. Edwards, D. Bruce and Dr. H. 

 Skinner. 



Little time left to mention many of the rarer Coleoptera, the 

 bulk of which it will take years to fully determine, as my first 

 year's collecting has taught me. In Yavapai County I secured 

 that rare green-bronzed Plusiotis lecontei mostly in pine woods. 

 Likewise the formidable looking Dynastes grantii, a hercules of 

 Arizona, seeking mountain canyons for its habitat. In the pines 

 of same localities of central Arizona occur the large Longicorn 

 beetle, Ergates spicula. While here in S. Arizona we find Den- 

 trobrachus geminatus, which seems to affect old stumps of Cot- 

 tonwood, and also taken at light. On sap of Willows one finds 

 here the blue and white Elaterid, Chalcolepidius zvebbii, and in 

 the soft rotted tissue of the giant of our desert, Cereus giganteus 

 that rare, black Hololepta cactii. Tenebrionidae are found in 

 many species here, so are Meloidae, Melolonthidae, Carabidae, 

 Staphylinidae, Cerambycidae, Curculionidae, and many other 

 families. All of my Coleoptera are in the hands of Mr. Charles 

 Palm, of New York. After one is affected with the collecting 

 fever of Arizona, it is well nigh impossible to give it up. As Pat 

 would say: It is a "taking disease." 



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