196 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Sept dark brown. Head shagreened and punctate, the face clothed with a white pubescence ; mandibles ferruginous, the teeth black. Thorax sparsely pubescent, transversely shagreeued and punctured, the punctures more distinct and coarser along the hind margin of the pronotum, on the parapsides along the furrow of same, and on the scutellum. Mesopleura except the hind margin sculptured, the hind margin smooth, impunc-tate. Hind coxa? large, reticulately sculptured. Abdomen finely or microscopically reticulated, the dorsal flap bluish. cf. Length 3. 2 mm. Agrees well with the 9 in color and in the structure of the head and thorax, but the tegulae and the femora are bluish-green, the tibia? dark brown, the tarsi, except the terminal joint, whitish, while the abdomen is bluish-green scarcely as long as the thorax, with the dorsal flap bright green. Type, Kb. 4306 U. S. K. M. Described from ] ? bred from the small gall. o RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD COLLECTING GROUNDS. BY H. F. WICKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa. IX. The Alpine Districts about Leadi-We. Leaving Buena Vista, the railroad follows the Arkansas Valley very closely in the long climb to Leadville. As the mountain summits draw nearer and nearer the waters of the turbulent stream become ever less muddy and by the time the great mining camp is reached the dwindled Arkansas is trans-formed into a clear brook, flowing over a pebbly bed or glid-ing more slowly on a torturous course through broad marshy meadows. The altitude has now exceeded ten thousand feet and the fauna and flora are essentially modified in conse-quence. We arrived at the station late in the afternoon of July 7th, during a heavy rain. Every afternoon of our eight day so-journ was marred by a like precipitation of moisture and this detracted materially from the pleasure of the trip as well as interfering with collecting. These showers are very cold and quickly result in benumbed hands which are slow to grasp the ground-inhabiting insects, and the saturated dripping foliage precludes successful use of the sweep-net or umbrella. The little butterflies (apparently some species of Li/cwna) fold
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