14^ — 

 So the electric 



lights were quite 



the evening was very cold, 

 deserted. 



The next daj^ we went by rail to Pensacola, Fla. The locality 

 di.l not seem very favorable for collecting. The soil is sandv, 

 anJ there is no hixuriance of vegetation. Scrub oak abounds, 

 while that heath-like plant Ccratiola cricoidcs with its glossy, dry 

 whorled leaves, never found except in barren, arid soil, grew every- 

 where. There was also a shrubby golden rod, SoliJai^^o paticifloi- 

 ci/h>sa, quite new to me, which seemed to thrive in the dry, hot 

 sand. The aspect of things seemed discouraging ; there were no 

 woods or streams near the town, no moths came to our lights in the 

 evening, no butterflies were seen about the garden flowers, and 

 1 feared mv captures would be few. l>ut. hard, persistant work 

 day by day for a week brought me some very good things. 

 I.epidoptera were exceedingly scarce. I took but one good moth, 

 a pretty sphingid, Lt'/iisesia circciC Hy. Edw. This I took at mid- 

 day hovering around the blue flowers of Ai)isonia ciliata one of the 

 milkweed family. Hut in Coleoptera I took man_\- rare and inter- 

 esting things. On the scrub oak were found Aiithaxia (/itiTcata and 

 Brachys ovata in great numbers. The pretty red weevil Attelahiis 

 nigript's and one specimen of a pretty Chrysomelid, fulvous spotted 

 with black, Mctachroiiia qiici-cata. Here also I found that tiny 

 Coccinellid, Exochoiniis coiitristatiis, so useful throughout the 

 ;Southern States as a devcnirer of the orange aphis and other 

 insect pests. 



Along the sandy paths through the scrub Cicindela unicolor 

 was flying and lighting just as our C. scxi^i/ftata does. It was the 

 only Ciciiuhia I found here, as it was so early in the season. 

 Under boards and chips I took Pterostichiis stibinarginatus, J\ 

 fa//ax, F. fabcr Harpaliis conipar, Aiiisodactyliis (rx'///s and Seh'/io- 

 phonis cl/iptiii/s. .\nd one ilay untler a pile of boards in a little 

 deserted graveyard in the suburbs I found a fine female specimen 

 -of PPcUiioiiiorpha claircilh'i. Two days after I returned to the spot 

 and beneath the same boards took another specimen, a male. In 

 looking over my Pensacola captures I find several of the Histeri- 

 d?e, Dermestid?e, and Staphylinidae which bear on their labels the 

 cabalistic initials D. D. These letters tlo not imply that the 

 specimens were obtained by exchange, purchase or gift from one 

 of our numerous entomological doctors of divinity, but that they 

 came from that rather unpleasant, l)ut prolific hunting-ground, a 

 dead dog. Here I found Histcr lu-t-ipcs, Ontosita colon, Trox 

 foveicpllis, Crcophilus villostis, AtiCiiius cyliiiJriiiis, Necrobia rufipes 



