130 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. XVI 



NOTE ON CICINDELA TASCOSAENSIS. " 



By Wm. T. Davis, Staten Island, N. Y. 



This tiger-beetle was described in the Bulletin of the Brook- 

 lyn Entomological Society for April, 1918. In 1920 a speci- 

 men was sent to Dr. Walter Horn, of Berlin, Germany, and under 

 date of November 21, 1920, he wrote as follows: ''Many thanks 

 for your favor of October 30, and the fine specimen of your 

 C. tascosaensis and its description. I was quite astonished to see 

 that it is really the same as my C. roseiventris subspecies linearis. 

 That is a very strange case of geographical distribution ! Texas 

 and Costa Rica ! Hardly to be understood, but about the exact 

 locality of my subspecies linearis there is no doubt at all, and I 

 have full confidence that your locality is also quite exact." 



Upon receipt of the above a letter of inquiry, in which the in- 

 formation received from Dr. Horn was mentioned, was addressed 

 to Miss Mildred McGill, of Tascosa, Oldham Co., northern Texas. 

 She replied under date of December 21, 1920, that she remem- 

 bered well collecting the tiger-beetles. Her letter continues as 

 follows : " It does seem strange that they would be found in locali- 

 ties as far apart, and this part of the country is so far from the 

 coast, though the altitude may be similar. The elevation here is 

 3,177 feet. You can see from the house the place where I cap- 

 tured the tiger-beetles. It is about a mile or a little more. . . . 

 I chased them around on the sandy, grassy spots of the ground, 

 and on the wide floors of white sand rocks. This year I thought 

 sure I would capture some tascosaensis again, but at the time they 

 should have been flying I was so very busy with Post Oflice work 

 I could not get out and look for them." 



