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8 Pulchra group. 



A small group, having many of the characters of the preceding, 

 being almost glabrous and with variable front in regard to pubes- 

 cence, but the tarsi are unusually long and the body narrower and 

 more elongate; the elytra are generally immaculate and peculiarly 

 sculptured, the punctures distinct basally but rapidly becoming 

 obsolete posteriorly. The species so far as known are pulchra Say, 

 pimeriana Lee. and horni Schaupp, also the Mexican ritteri Bates. 



9 Fulgida group. 



In this group the body is of moderate or small size, with fine and 

 moderate to feeble sculpture, short labrum and more or less pubes- 

 cent front, generally in both sexes; it is principally distinguished 

 as a group, however, by the unusually short tarsi, fulgida itself 

 being the least typical of all in this respect. The group includes 

 fulgida Say, wilUstoni, latesignata and hyperborea Lee., limbigera 

 G. & H. (limbata Say praeocc.), senilis G. H. Horn, pseudosenilis 

 W. Horn, tenuicincta Schaupp, cochisensis the only immaculate 

 form echo and amadeensis Csy., lantzi E. D. Harris, as well as 

 nympha* and obliviosa*. These species and subspecies are distrib- 

 uted among a number of small groups by Mr. Leng, but this seems 

 to be unnecessary, as there are strong bonds of affinity among them, 

 especially in general style of ornamentation, sculpture and tarsal 

 structure; there is however marked diversity in external habitus. 



\QPusilla group. 



A group of small species, one of the chief peculiarities of which is 

 the tendency to unusual elongation of the humeral lunule; in most 

 of its other characters however it reproduces the preceding group in 

 great measure. The species are pusilla and terricola Say, cincti- 

 pennis, cyandla and imperfecta Lee., lunalonga Schaupp and tuo- 

 lumnce Leng. Mr. Woodgate sent me a very large series of cincti- 

 pennis, from Jemez Springs, New Mexico, nearly all of which are of 

 a dull coppery-brown color, contrasting in this respect with a series 

 from Dakota and Montana, all of which are dull green. I have not 

 seen pusilla, terricola, cyanella or lunalonga, but have the others. 

 TuolumncB is a true species and not a variety. 



