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C . ioessa by the forehead being more vertical and distinctly strigose on each side, and 

 (in the green form) by the different colour of the side margins of the elytra and the 

 under surface of the body." (Tab. XIII. fig. 3.) 



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10 (a). Cicindela nephelota. 



Cicindela nephelota, Bates, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 5, ix. p, 319. 



"Minus elongata, postice paullo dilatata, supra fusco-senea opaca nigro-fusco varia, elytris vitta marginali (ab 

 humero usque ultra medium continuata, post humerum a margine paullulum remota) intus ramulos duos 

 emittente, primum brevem, secundum obliquum, subrectum versus suturam extensum, lunula apicali et 

 gutta antico-discoidali, albis ; labro albo, antice medio paullulum produeto denticulato, utrinque sinuato, 

 angulis subrectis ; palpis rufo-testaceis, articulis apicalibus cupreo-aeneis ; capite toto valde strigoso, inter 

 oculos paullo concavo ; thorace parvo, lateribus medio rotundatis nee angulatis, disco utrinque eonvexo, 

 longe incximbenti-piloso, striguloso; elytris insequalibus, haud profunde punctatis, signaturis albis albo-fusco 



; corpore subtus nitido, eyaneo, pectoris lateribus igneo-cupreis parce pilosis ; pedibus oupreis. 







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Convexa, laetissime subaurato-viridis, nitida, elytris apice obtuse rotundatis, sutura dentiformi, omnino sub- 

 tiliter alutaeeis, obsolete punctatis, vitta marginali (humeros et apicem haud attingente) lsevi fusco-pur- 

 purea, utrinque punctis submarginalibus albis duobus, prima pone medium, secunda ante apicem ; corpore 

 subtus eyaneo, pedibus aurato-cupreis ; palpis piceo-cupreis ; collo crasso, occipite eonvexo ; labro testaceo 

 lateribus auratis, ( S ) medio valde produeto longe tridentato, lateribus utrinque valide unidentatis. 

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Hah. Mexico, Ciudad in Durango (Forrer). 



This beautiful little species cannot be placed in any of the numerous groups indi- 

 cated by Chaudoir in his Catalogue of the Cicindelidse. In some of its characters it 

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middle, the produced part having three acute teeth (the middle one longest), and the 





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sides each having also a broad and sharp tooth. The head is finely anastomose-strigose, 



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piceous, with a red-coppery tinge. The colour of the labrum is not clearly visible 

 in the single specimen sent ; but it is metallic on the sides, and apparently non-metallic 

 and dingy testaceous in the middle. The thorax is rather narrower than the head 

 (eyes included) and much more narrowed (in a straight line) to the base than is usual 

 in the genus ; its surface is only faintly sculptured and shining. The elytra are sub- 





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cylindrical and convex ; their surface moderately opaque, with very minute sculpture 







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