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ppen spaces were covered with myriad flowers and dumps of bunch- 

 V grass. Here we found Henry Edward's L. speciosa in abundance. This 

 beautiful little insect is intensely blue with a broad black border and 

 white fringe and with the under side marked like L. polyphemus, the 

 spots being very krge and heavy. The female has very little blue and 

 looks almost black at first glamce. I judge it to be a dwarfed, desert 

 form of L. polypktmus, hardly larger than exiHs, with the coloring and 

 spots very strongly marked. They flew close to the ground and were 

 occasionally taken clinging to the stems of bunchgrass. With their 

 wings folded tight and the under side only showing, they were very 

 maeh tfie same color as the grass, which was aUready bleaching under 

 the desert son. 



At Johanaetbarg we took a few L. speciosa, a number of M. tuu- 

 motgtm, several dwarfed desert specimens of £. amsomdts and each of 

 us took one E. cetkmrm, form m<mtwom (or perhaps W. G. Wright's 

 form deserti). We also saw the tail end of an enormous flight of 

 P. cardui, which covered all of Los Angeles Cotmty in February and 

 March. 



.MtogetiMr we had a very intercetiaf trip through a fascinating and 

 little traveled co untr y. GeneraOj one tees a number of coyotes and 

 jack rabbits on this tr^ but we saw none. We did. however, capture 

 several desert tortoiaea. three rattlesnakes and a number of homed 

 toads.— J. R. Haskim, Los Angeles. California. 



Cidndala oaipanctata Pabr. at Seaville. New Jeraey. (CoL). 



TwentyHiae specimens of this tiger-beetle were taken along a road at 

 Seaville on Anfust la and 16, 1915. The road was well shaded by pine 

 and oak trees and exhibited several kinds of soiL The majority of the 

 specimens were taken on dark, rich-looldng earth, which occurs along 

 the coast baidc of die narshet, bat does not penetrate far into the State. 

 At one time, whea the road was more oscd, gravel was filled in along 

 one stretdi. and several specimens were taken here. In another place 

 a narrow stretch of white sand ooctirred in an otherwise uninterrupted 

 area of the black earth before mentioned and two specimens (in copu- 

 lation) were taken 00 this. But very few of the whole number were 

 taken on white sand. In my search I went back several miles inland 

 and here the typical heavy Jersey sand began and uMtpunctata ceased. 

 All the specimens were taken within two miles of the beginning of 

 the road. 



On the first date, August 12th. eleven specimens were taken. This 

 was a bright, sunny morning and the sun's rays penetrated through the 

 foliage overhead and struck the road in places, but unipuuctafa was 

 never in these light places. On this occasion everyone of the eleven 

 g p c ci mens was absolutely motionless when taken. Many of them show- 

 ed no life tmtil after they were pot in Ae bottle. They were usually 

 in or near the centre of the road, in the characteristic tiger-beetle 



