THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 165 



, NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA FROM THE WESTERN 



UNITED STATES. 

 Second Paper, 

 by h. f. wickham, iowa city, iowa. 

 '"■ A number of interesting undescribed species of Coleoptera have 

 accumulated in my cabinet, principally as the result of my own trips to 

 the western parts of the country. The description of several of these 

 follow, care having been taken to avoid describing forms belonging to 

 genera of great extent which have not been recently monographed : 



CiciNDELA, Linn. 



C. Parowana, n. sp. — General form of C fulgida, Say, but a trifle 

 more elongate. Above bright, shining blue-green, beneath purple-blue. 

 Plead granulate above, interocular striae fine and numerous, front very 

 hairy, cheeks with a few white hairs, labial palpi of male pale at base, 

 labrum longer and more advanced in the middle than in fulgida. Pro- 

 thorax much as in fulgida, but more narrowed behind and less hairy. 

 Elytra proportionately a little longer and more finely and clearly punctate 

 than m fulgida, the surface very finely rugulose, the tips minutely serrulate. 

 Markings of the type of fulgida, but the middle band is prolonged back- 

 ward along the side margin, though not reaching the apical lunule, while 

 the descending discal portion is more elongate, less curved, scarcely 

 enlarged nor reflexed at tip. Vestiture of the under surface much as in 

 fulgida. Length, 13 mm., .52 inch. 



I collected a small series of this interesting beetle on the old sand 

 beaches of Little Salt Lake, near Parowan, Utah, about the middle of 

 August. They were running and flying at a distance of perhaps half a 

 mile from the water's edge on bare spots among the scant grass and weeds 

 which dot the waste bottoms. As I was engaged at the time in a search 

 for C. echo,* I thought at first that I had secured a green race of that 

 species which would lead into C. pseudosenilis, and not until after reach- 

 ing home did I find that my captures were more nearly allied to C. fulgida. 

 I succeeded also in finding the true C. echo in this same neighbourhood, 

 though it was more abundant closer to the lake. 



After a casual comparison with specimens in my cabinet, my first 

 impression was that the above-described form should be classified as a 

 local colour-variety of C. fulgida, but on further examination I have 



*See The Americin Naturalist for September, 1904 ; also the Annual Report of 

 the Entomological Society of Ontario for the same year. 



May, 1905, 



