34 FAMILY I. CICINDELIIVE. 



Throughout 1he State; common. April 2-Octobrr !). Occurs 

 usually on sandy or mud flats, 20 and more feet back from running 

 water; also along sandy roads or on bare spots and pathways in 

 open upland woods. One specimen was taken April 3d on a cement 

 walk in Indianapolis. 



(31). CICINDELA ANCOCISCONENSIS Harr., Family Visitor, 1853, 



No. 3, p. 2. 



Brown-bronzed above, bright metallic green beneath ; humeral 

 lunule scarcely curved ; middle band obtusely bent and extended 

 along the margin toward the apex; apical lunule bent forward 

 and inward. Front hairy; thorax subquadrate ; elytra granulate- 

 punctate. Length 1416 mm. (Fig. 19.) 



(After Leng.) Fulton County ; scarce. July 14. Taken in small 

 numbers along the borders of Bruce Lake and along ditches 

 in peat bogs and tamarack swamps. Probably occurs sparingly in 

 like situations throughout the northern third of the State, its range 

 being given as "New Hampshire to Illinois." 



10 (33). CICINDELA BEPANDA Dej., Spec., I, 1825, 74. 



Brownish-bronze with a more or less greenish or coppery re- 

 flection ; humeral lunule C-shaped ; middle band rectangularly 

 bent, connected with a marginal white line which nearly but never 

 quite reaches the apical and humeral luuules. Front sparingly 



Fig 20. 



hairy. Thorax nearly square, hairy on the sides. Elytra grauu- ( After Leng > 

 late-punctate, parallel in the male, suddenly dilated before the 

 middle in the female. Length 12-13 mm. (Fig. 20.) 



Throughout the State ; frequent. April 18-October 5. Occurs 



, 



most abundantly on sand banks and gravel bars; also along the 

 borders of roads, fields and railway tracks. 



11 (33c). CICINDELA 12-GUTTATA Dej., Spec., I, 1825, 73. 



Brownish-bronze; elytral markings consisting of humeral, pust- 

 humeral, apical, anteapical and upper discal dots and a very nar- 

 row middle band, scarcely reaching the discal dot. From rcixiiHlu. 

 of which it is usually considered a variety, it differs also "by tl:< 

 more flattened form, by the shorter and less convex thorax and 

 Fig. 21. by the elytra of the female being only gradually dilated." 

 (After Leng.) (Lcnff.) Length 12-15 mm. (Fig. 21.) 



Lake, Starke, Fulton, Vigo and Posey counties. May 27-October 

 10. Occurs sparingly only along Ihc margins of ditch;-, in peat 

 bogs and low, moist grounds. 



