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among other features. The most obvious points of resemblance are the 

 more acutely attenuate elytra, with coarse and irregular sculpture, and the 

 presence of punctures on the anterior part of the front ; but these punc- 

 tures are also very noticeable in other types, such as sequoiarum. The 

 close association of the Audouini and punctifrons groups suggested by W. 

 Horn is therefore by no means warranted. 



It might be contended that collaris and compositus of the table are 

 the sexes of a single species, but the incongruities of the types are of a 

 distinctly different kind from those distinguishing the sexes in any other 

 form, and, if they should prove to belong to a single species, it will be 

 decidedly noteworthy. It is true they come from the same locality, but 

 the various labels which they bear would seem to show that they inhabit 

 different stations in the vicinity of Wawona, and were probably not taken 

 by the same collector. In my original description of lugubris two sub- 

 species were included, and I here definitely adopt as the type the example 

 alluded to as having the elytra more gradually attenuated and widest 

 before the middle. The other specimen, although very close to typical 

 sequoiarum, differs in its more elongate foim, relativtly smaller prothorax, 

 and some other slight characters not determinative without further 

 material. Still another subspecific form, represented by a single specimen, 

 has the elytral punctures much smaller and feebler than in any other. 



I notice that the name /avis of G. H. Horn is persistently misspelled 

 " levis " by Dr. W. Horn.* 



Cicindela, Linn. 



The peculiar vestiture of the legs in Dromochorus, it seems to me, is 

 a perfectly valid character distinguishing that genus from Cicindela, apart 

 from the difference in general habitus; for, even in those forms of Cicindela 

 having vestigial wings, such as celeripes, there is no tendency toward fine 

 decumbent crural pubescence. The sculpture of the elytra is still more 

 minute than anything that I have observed in Cicindela. This sculpture 

 is wonderfully beautiful under the moderately high power of a binocular. 

 In C. nigroccerulea and allied forms, for example, the ground sculpture 

 consists of minute crowded, nearly circular pits, which, more posteriorly, 



*It is true that levis, with the e long-, means smooth in the purest Latin, but, 

 with simply a shoi t pronunciation of the e, which is never indicated in ordinary 

 print, it also signifies light in weight. To distinguish these two very distinct* 

 meanings, the word smooth is usually written hevis, the ce being a legitimate 

 rendering of the long e, and very important to observe in naming species in order 

 to avoid ambiguity. 



