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Psyche 
[March-June 
CICINDELA FORMOSA GENEROSA DEJ. 
By C. A. Frost 
Framingham, Mass. 
Probably the most easterly locality for this variety at present 
known is in the large sand blow-out in Freeport, Me. known as 
the “Desert of Maine.” Having no net with me on the visit to 
this place I was able to take but one specimen there on June 11, 
1938. This locality is about 20 miles easterly and 34 miles 
southerly from the locality at Paris, Me. where it occurs. I 
also took specimens near the shore of Lake Webb in Weld, Me. 
on June 30, 1938. This place is about 34 miles north and a 
few miles easterly from Paris. 
I have not seen any other records from Maine before or since 
I took it on the sand dunes back of the beach at Ogunquit on 
Sept. 17, 1903. This locality is about 100 miles south of Weld 
and 50 miles southwest of Freeport. 
Weld, Me. is some 500 miles south of the locality in Canada 
where the variety manitoba Leng is found. Concerning this 
variety it may be well to point out that hasty statements based 
on insufficient material are of no great scientific value. In a 
fairly recent paper the author writes: — “This has always been 
considered a variety, but because of its restricted occurrence in 
the north it should be known as Cicindela formosa subspecies 
manitoba Since I have specimens from Iowa, Nebraska and 
Kansas this statement has no weight. Moreover I have taken 
a specimen here in Framingham, Mass, which is almost an exact 
duplicate of a specimen from Manitoba labelled, “ manitoba 
Leng, Topotypical.” In mine the white area at the humeri is 
slightly narrower. My series of 94 specimens of formosa can 
be arranged to show in markings a nicely integraded series from 
the species to the varieties generosa and manitoba . Specimens 
occur not uncommonly here in New England which have a quite 
marked coppery color. 
