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securing accurate identification of specimens now being - col- 

 lected; (2) compiling- lists of all species from North Carolina 

 found in the larger collections of the country; (3) making 

 lists from all authoritative published literature. The work 

 has only been in progress about one year, and only certain 

 groups have yet been catalogued at all. 



Under the first head chief attention has been given to the 

 State collections at Raleigh in charge of the author, and the 

 private collections of Mr. C. S. Brimley at Raleigh, these 

 being the only ones of any extent known to be in the state. 

 Mr. Brimley's work has largely contributed to make the cata- 

 logue as complete as it now is. The work of compiling lists 

 from the collections of the country and from the published 

 literature is under way, though being carried on at consider- 

 able disadvantage, 



Life Histories of Some Southern Birds. T. G\ Pearson, 

 Greensboro. 



List of the Cicindelldae of North Carolina with Notes on 

 the Species. Franklin Sherman, Jr. (Abstract). 



During the years 1901 and 1902 the author devoted consid- 

 erable attention to collecting the Tiger beetles of the State. 

 The species where not known positively by the author were 

 identified by competent persons. The list, including species 

 recorded by others as well as those collected by the author, 

 contains nineteen distinct species and three varieties. Of 

 these all save one species and one variety are represented in 

 the collection of the N. C. Department of Agriculture. 



The list contains the following: 



1 Tetvacha Carolina, Linn. 



2 " virginica, Linn. 



3 Cicindela unipunctata, Fab. 



4 kk scuttellaris var. unicolor, Dej. 

 4a " ki var. modesta, Dej. 

 4b " scuttellaris var. rugifrons, Dej. 



5 " 6-guttata, Fab. 



5a " " var. Harrissi, Leng. 



6 ik patruela, Dej. 



