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Vowell's Mill. The specimens received are all dark in coloring and 

 suggest the tendency to partial obliteration of the markings observed 

 in other southern specimens of this species. 



Cicindela repanda. 



This species is represented by a few specimens taken in June. 

 Mr. Coverdale has not sent an}- particular information in reference to it. 



Cicindela punctulata. 



Occurs in June and is locally very abundant. The specimens are 

 all very dark in color, nearly black, with the punctuation greenish 

 and sometimes with white spots on the elytra. 



Cicindela tortuosa. 



This species is represented by a single specimen taken in August. 

 Cicindela cumatilis. 



Occurs from June to August over a considerable range of country 

 (fifty miles at least) mostly on red clay formation. Mr. Coverdale 

 mentions this species occurring in the country school house, apparently 

 interested in the crumbs of food dropped by the children at noon 

 recess. It is very constant in respect of its beautiful blue coloring 

 but quite variable in the extent of the white spots of the elytra. 



II. 

 The species collected at Covington in June, 1902, are fewer in 

 number. Covington is in St. Tammany Parish, in the southeastern 

 part of the state, and near the northern shore of Lake Ponchartrain. 

 The vicinity of Covington is flat and low ; there are pine woods in 

 which the trees are small and dense and the soil " crawfishy," soft 

 when wet but hard as a rock when dry. xA.t the time of Mr. Cover- 

 dale's visit, there had been no rain for five weeks, the vegetation was 

 largely burnt up and dead, and the trees were covered with a fine 

 impalpable white dust, which was also ankle deep on the roads. 

 Nearby flows the Bogue Falaya River, and the best collecting was 

 found along its sandy banks and in the woods immediately above them 

 and on the sandbars exposed by the low water in the river. On the 

 wet sands near the water's edge were Cicindela tortuosa and repatida, 

 on the bars themselves Cicindela J Va/>/eri a.n<i on the banks, partly in 

 the shade of the trees, were Cicindela abdominalis and punctulata. 

 Many Carabidae were also taken on these sandbars and, in the stag- 

 nant pools between them and the banks, many Dytiscidse. 



