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amination I am convinced that it must be considered as distinct. It is closely- 

 allied to C. blanda, but is less elongated in its form, and the elytra, although 

 cylindrical, are not so convex. The labrum is short, and, as in C. blanda, the 

 teeth of the anterior edge are obsolete ; the palpi are pale, with the tips brassy 

 green. The thorax is very finely, not densely wrinkled ; the sides are more 

 rounded than in C. blanda, although as in that species, they are less convex in 

 the female. The elytra are of a brilliant copper-color, more coarsely and dense- 

 ly punctured than in C. blanda. The markings are as in C. blanda, but very 

 broad, and the upper part of the medial fascia is less tortuous. The elytra of 

 the female is strongly excised on the outer edge near the tip, precisely 

 as in C. blanda. The body beneath is greenish bronze, covered with fine dense 

 white hair ; the posterior trochanters are testaceous. 



The insect that I have considered as C. blanda var. y must also be separated 

 as a distinct species under the name. 



C. t a r s a 1 i s , elongata, vix cylindrica, fusco-picea opaca, thorace lateribus 

 rotundatis, utrinque leviter constricto, breviter albo pubescente, elytris ochreis, 

 sutura antice lineolisque obliquis fuscis, apice oblique attenuatis serrulatis ; 

 labro transverso, edentato ; tibiis testaceis trochantibusposticis flavis, tarsis pos- 

 ticis longissimis. Long. -48. 



One male, Canootche river, Georgia. The diagnosis enables this species to 

 be distinguished from the preceding and from C. blanda. The color is dull, 

 without any metallic gloss. The elytra are less cylindrical and less convex, and 

 the markings are so broad that the interstices between them are reduced to nar- 

 row fuscous lines ; the punctures of the dark parts of the elytra are large and 

 dense, but not deep. The tibiae are pale, with the tip darker ; the posterior tarsi 

 are more than one-fourth longer than in C. blanda. The body beneath is black, 

 covered with short, dense white hair. 



2. Cicindela cumatilis Lee. Ann. Lye. 5, 173. 



A variety of this beautiful species was found with the spots much larger than 

 in the type, so that the medial band attains the margin, and is only interrupted 

 on the disc : the spot anterior to the apical lunule is also enlarged, and there is 

 a very minute white humeral dot. 



3. C i cind e 1 a n. sp. 



A very small species, probably allied to C. germanica, indicated only by a 

 single elytron. The markings are so different from any other species within 

 our territory, that a description of even this fragment will enable the species to 

 be easily recognized. 



The color is brownish black, without metallic lustre ; the surface is sericeous 

 with fine granulations ; the punctures are distant, large and deep ; the humeral 

 lunule is very narrow ; the oblique posterior part is curved ; the margin is 

 white, interrupted only at the apical lunule ; the anterior band perpendicular, 

 and united to the margin externally, descending slightly at its inner part, and 

 terminating in a small spot near the suture ; the margin along the apical lunule 

 is finely serrate, and obliquely attenuated almost to the tip, which is very 

 suddenly rounded, and almost truncate ; the suture is armed with a very mi- 

 nute spine. 



4. Lachnophorus elegantulus Man. Bull. Mosc. 1843, p. 43: ibid 

 184G, p. 7. 



Tacky pus mediosignatiis Menetries, Bull. Soc. Petrop. 1843. This pretty 

 little insect seems to have a very extensive distribution. I found it in abun- 

 dance on the banks of the Gila near the Pimas villages. Dr. Woodhouse 

 took it on the Creek Boundary, and Mr. Pease brought a specimen from 

 Mexico. ' , 



5. Chlcenius vafer, nigro piceus, capite cyaneo, thorace cyanescente, 

 latitudine breviore, antrorsum angustato et lateribus rotundato, subtiliter obso- 

 lete punctato, elytris thorace latioribus dense punctulatis, et pubescentibus, 

 striis fere ad apicem fortiter punctatis, antennarum basi pedibusque ferrugineis. 

 Long. "45. 



