OMUS AND ClCINDELA 1 9 



last year. In the first place, cinctipennis of LeConte, is a different 

 species from pusilla and is not by any means a variety; this can be 

 seen at first glance by reason of the relatively smaller head and less 

 prominent eyes, as well as the paler coloration and stronger elytral 

 sculpture of cinctipennis. I assume cyanella Lee., to be the green 

 or blue form occurring in more northern regions and having still 

 stronger and more asperate punctures. Cyanella is a subspecies of 

 cinctipennis. Terricola Say, still remains unknown to me. The 

 following is a subspecies of pusilla: 



Cicindela pusilla ssp. sayanella nov. Form and size, the broad 

 head and prominent eyes as in pusilla, the elytra not quite so sombre 

 in ground color, being very obscure coppery-brown, the punctures similar, 

 sparse and fine, but becoming stronger, closer and metallic apically; 

 the markings consist of a slender and feebly arcuate humeral lunule, a 

 slender and entire apical lunule, inflexed at its anterior end and a short 

 median marginal streak, which is obtusely angulate internally at its 

 middle point; legs and tarsi (9) a little shorter than in the female of 

 pusilla ; truncate lobe of the last ventral more impressed than in that 

 species. Length (9) 10.0 mm.; width 3.4 mm. (Monroe Canon, 

 Sioux Co., Nebraska.) Knaus. 



In both male and female of pusilla, the elytral punctures are fine 

 and notably sparse from base to apex; the labrum is more strongly 

 lobed and tridentate than in the female of pusilla and more nearly 

 as in the same sex of cinctipennis. Sayanella is probably the form 

 indicated by Say as a variety of pusilla. 



The following is a distinct member of the pusilla group: 



Cicindela tularensis n. sp. Outline and size nearly as in pusilla, 

 the ground color above obscure coppery-brown; under surface not very 

 brilliant metallic blue-green throughout, with rather dense white hair 

 on the sterna of the hind body and sides of the abdomen, the prosternum 

 glabrous, its parapleura sparsely hairy; legs very slender, black, slightly 

 metallic, the tibia* and tarsi in great part pallescent; head rather small, 

 but little wider than the prothorax, the latter subquadrate, only a little 

 narrowed behind, larger in the female, finely, densely sculptured; elytra 

 somewhat cuneiform, widest posteriorly, with nearly straight sides, 

 having small sparse and very unevenly distributed punctures, each within 

 a conspicuous ocellate spot, which is blue centrally and gray peripherally, 

 the foveae of the irregular subsutural series very small and inconspicuous. 

 Length (c/ 1 9 ) 9.5-10.3 mm.; width 3.3-4.0 mm. California (Tulare 

 Co.). Four examples, received under the name lunalonga var. tuolitmnce. 



In one male the pale markings on the elytra consist of a very 

 slender humeral lunule, a very fine linear apical lunule, rectilinearly 



