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vice, the following order was prepared and was issued by the 

 Postmaster General. 



' ' Office of the Postmaster General, 



Washington D. C, Dec. i6, 1903. 



Order No. 1269a. 



Modify the Postal Laws and Regulations, edition of 1902, 

 as follows : 



Section 49 ^, paragraph i, line 3 ; omit the word " insects." 



Section 496 : Omit paragraph 7 and insert in lieu thereof 

 the following : 



7. Queen bees and their attendant bees, the "Australian 

 lady bird," insects (live or dried), and dried reptiles may be 

 sent in the mails when so put up as to render it practically 

 impossible that the package shall be broken in transit, the per- 

 sons of those handling the mails injured, or the mail bags or 

 their contents soiled. (See paragraph i of this Section.) 



H. C. Payne, Postmaster General." 



Knowing that this order will be of wide interest to ento- 

 mologists, I trust that this communication will be published 

 in Entomological News. 



List of the Cicindelidae of North Carolina, with 

 Notes on the Species. 



By Franklin Sherman, Jr., Entomologist N. C. Dept. 

 Agriculture, Raleigh. 



In the Canadian Entomologist for August, 1902 (vol. xxxiv, 

 p. 217), Mr. Edward D. Harris has a paper entitled " Notes on 

 Cicindelidae in North Carolina," in which he mentions six 

 species and varieties ; and this has stood alone, so far as I am 

 able to learn, as a contribution to our knowledge of this family 

 in North Carolina. The present paper is intended to be com- 

 plete so far as it has been in the power of the writer to make it 

 .so, and is based largely on collections made in various parts of 

 the State in the last two years. All actual captures of unques- 

 tionable authenticity of which I can find positive record, are 



