ClCINDELID^E 3 1 



strigose, with sparse erect white hairs, the eyes well developed; labrum 

 obtusely prominent medially, minutely unidentate; antennae moderate; 

 prothorax fully a third wider than the median length, subparallel, with 

 nearly straight sides, the apex only just visibly wider than the base, 

 peculiarly and strongly lobed at the middle; surface minutely and very 

 feebly rugulose, pubescent laterally, the sulci blackish, not differently 

 colored; elytra subparallel, more than one-half longer than wide, four- 

 fifths wider than the prothorax; sides feebly arcuate behind basal third, 

 at apical fifth becoming rapidly oblique and nearly straight to the very 

 acute apex, which is minutely denticulate; serrulation very minute; 

 humeral lunule slender, abruptly becoming transverse at basal fifth, 

 extending inward rectilinearly to the middle; median band slender, 

 posteriorly arcuate to the middle, there very abruptly bent posteriorly, 

 curving inward and disappearing near the suture before apical fourth, 

 connected externally with a fine white margin extending from basal to 

 apical third; apical lunule slender, equal, abruptly bent inward at it? 

 anterior end; sculpture peculiar, dense, strongly asperulate, the punctures 

 more or less coalescent and very shallow, definable chiefly by the very 

 strong granules. Length (cT) 12.5 mm.; width 4.6 mm. Michigan 

 (Marquette), John D. Sherman, Jr. 



The peculiar form of the markings shows that the present species 

 is a normal member of the hirticollis group, but, apart from this, there 

 is scarcely any resemblance to the other forms; the rather greater 

 development of the anterior median lobe of the prothorax, sombre 

 coloration and remarkable sculpture are singular features, besides 

 the sharply angular elytral apex and small size. 



In the marginata group there are two rather distinct forms that 

 should be characterized as follows: 



Cicindela macra ssp. topekana nov. Larger in size and of stouter form 

 than macra, similar in coloration, sculpture and maculation, also in the 

 conformation of the elytral apices in both sexes, differing in the head, 

 which is larger, with still more prominent eyes, in the shorter and more 

 transverse prothorax of the female, that of the male being as in macra, 

 and in the more obscure trochanters and tibiae. Length (cf 9 ) 1 1.6-13.5 

 mm.; width 3.9-4.4 mm. Kansas (Mt. Hope). Three examples. 



The small series when compared with a large series of macra in my 

 collection, displays a very positive difference in size and stoutness 

 of the body and in the large head. The short white hairs of the 

 head and prothorax are similarly disposed. The elytral punctures 

 in both macra and topekana are very much smaller than in the 

 cuprascens series, which is made up of that species, mercurialis, 

 amnicola, mundula and puritana. In knausi and the following, the 

 punctures again become much smaller and they differ besides, from 



