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basally and apically, with a few scattered between the central and each 

 lateral spot ; elytra rather shorter than wide, almost evenly rounded, not 

 much inflated basally, each with fourteen fine and feebly impressed striae 

 bearing coarse and widely-separated punctures, becoming smaller but still 

 distinct apically, the common entire sutural green vitta strongly dilated 

 before the apex into a transversely rhomboidal spot : each elytron also 

 with one subscutellar and three well-developed subhumeral green spots 

 at base, the second row as in tessel/atum, but with the two large spots 

 more rounded, the third band nearly as in that species, but less irregular 

 and broadening much more suturally, there joining the second row and 

 also the subapical rhomboid. Length, 6.0 mm.; width, 4.6 mm. Ohio. 



Robusium, from the more boreal Nova Scotia region, is much less 

 maculate than brevipenne, and is said to more nearly resemble gilts, in that 

 respect ; the sutural dark vitta wholly disappears behind the third row, 

 and is not expanded into a spot, the litter being greatly developed in the 

 present species, which usually bears the name robustum in collections. 

 The dark metallic-green coloration prevails in brevipenne, but is much less 

 in area than the pale regions in robustum. 



Blethisa, Bon. 

 B. Columbica, n. sp. — Form nearly as in multipunctata, but larger 

 and less metallic, deep black, polished, with very feeble violaceous lustre, 

 more greenish-aeneous in the marginal gutters of the elytra; head nearly 

 as in multipunctata, but larger and with much stouter antennae ; prothorax 

 as in that species, but less punctate in the lateral gutters ; elytra more 

 oval and less parallel-sided, with somewhat uneven but distinct, rather 

 coarse and distinctly punctate striae, the foveas much smaller, about five 

 on the third and two or three on the fifth interval ; side piece of the 

 prosternum with small but evident punctures, becoming obsolete anteriorly; 

 anterior male tarsi rather more elongate. Length, £ , n.o mm.; width, 

 4.4 mm. British Columbia. 



Differs from multipunctata as stated above, and from Oregona in its 

 smaller size and partially punctate sides of the prosternum. 



Pseudomorpha, Kirby. 

 The species of this genus are as active in flight as Cicinde/a, and are 

 rather difficult to capture ; for this reason they may not be actually so 

 rare as might be assumed. 



