THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 147 



At Alamogordo, N. M., on the flat east of the town, I took, June 

 13th, 1905, along an overflow stream from an irrigation ditch, a single 

 specimen of what I thought was Cicindela rectilatera, Chd. Last 

 December, while looking over the material taken at the above place, I 

 turned this specimen over and noticed that the last ventral segment was 

 reddish testaceous. This is different from the typical rectiiatera, and I 

 soon ascertained that the insect was Cicmdela flavopimctata^ Chevr., 

 recorded heretofore in the United States only from Nogales, Arizona, on 

 the Mexican border. My specimen is a female, and when compared with 

 females of the sub-species j-ectilatera (placed as a sub-species oifiavoptinc- 

 /^tA? by Dr. Walther Horn in his "Index,'' published February, 1905), 

 from Texas, it is lighter brown in colour, the elytral suture is more 

 coppery, the head, thorax and body are not so robust^ and the last 

 abdominal segment is bright reddish testaceous. As establishing the 

 north-eastern range of this species, it may be noted that Alamogordo is 

 eighty-seven miles north-east of El Paso, Texas, on the Rio Grande, the 

 boundary line between the United States and New Mexico. 



The F. H. Snow expedition from the University of Kansas to south- 

 east Arizona, in August, 1905, was fortunate in securing a large series of 

 the heretofore rare Cicmdela pimeriana, Lee, east of Douglas, on the 

 Mexican boundary. This species, while almost identical in colour with 

 imicolor^ Dej., and in form with Hor?iii, Schp., is easily recognized despite 

 the rather meagre description we have of it. It is longer than tmicolor, 

 thorax slightly longer, anterior angles more prominent, constricted at 

 base and apex slightly more than uiiicolor^ with median depression deeper. 

 Elytra gradually widening from base to near apex, being almost identical 

 in shape with the body of Hornii, except that it is a little smaller and 

 flatter. Labrum white in both sexes, antennae more slender than in 

 ufiicolor, with basal joints less hairy. Front of head equally hairy in both 

 sexes. Elytra smoother and more shining than in u?iicolor. Colour 

 varying from purple to green. Humeral dot and transverse dash of 

 median band of elytra occasionally present. Upon request, Mr. Eugene 

 G. Smyth, of Topeka, Kansas, examined the elytra of pinieriiia, and 

 reports as follows : " Under strong power of the microscope, the elytral 

 lips show decidedly serrulate — minutely and beautifully serrulate. The 



elytral tips oi pulchra and scutellaris, examined under the same power, are 

 entirely smooth. Comparing the surface of elytra of the three species : 

 scutella7'is^ surface smooth, scarlet to crimson, iridescent in all lights, impunc- 

 tate, or with shallow green punctures anteriorly; ptclch7'a^ very smooth, 



