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} latter sex were obtained. A short extract from a letter 
om Mr. Field relative to this trip will be of interest in this 
section. He writes :— 
“We started (from San Diego) June 29, and a hot spell 
arted the same day we did. The first week was withering, 
stering hot and, as we drifted along the Mexican border 
he semi desert country, Hell could not have been more than 
half mile off, and it wouldn't have surprised me at all to 
see ok Mr. Devil sitting under a sage brush or greasewood. 
cut out the Devil’s canyon trip on account of the intense heat, 
it was impossible to take the horses any nearer than 
fountain Springs, we actually could not have carried water 
sbugh to quench our thirst until we got back. I was obliged 
> Tee she Thyce tre, but made 
it, and while supper was cooking I placed the cyanide bot- 
tes and nets by the tree to be prepared for an emergency 
but dark, and then they did come with a rush as they did 
before were not nearly so many out, but after the 
battle we counted thirteen slain.” 
Pay © . Field narrates further adventures with the new Thyce— 
Po is sufficient to indicate some of the conditions inci- 
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“ae 
-- fesent the more tked white vittz of the related spe- 
_ cies. Antennal club about three-fourths longer than the stem. Pygid- 
jum squamulo-pubescent, the hairs and squamules not very densely 
and both nearly evenly distributed over the entire surface, 
lateral and apical margins only slightly reflexed. Front tibia bi- 
