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tangularly, descending far and expanded at tip, apical lunule inflect- 

 ed anteriorly, all connected or nearly connected by marginal band. 

 Head rugose, labrum short, one-toothed or obscurely three toothed ; 

 thorax subquadrate, granulate, impressions moderately deep; elytra 

 punctate, not granulate. Less hairy than any other member of this 

 group ; above, the sides of the thorax as well as the front are hairy ; 

 beneath, the palpi, flanks of thorax and legs are hairy, but the sides 

 of the head are bare, and the hairs on the abdomen are scanty and 

 scattered. 



Described by Schaupp from a single specimen from Colorado, 

 this species has recently been found by Mr. Kuaus on the shores of 

 the Great Salt Lake. Its affinities are puzzling, as pointed out by 

 Schaupp, but the wide difl^erence in locality prevents its being con- 

 sidered a variety of kites ignata, and I prefer to regard it as a species 

 of very limited range, connecting in some ways this group with that 

 containing vulgaris. 



FuLGiDA group. 



Thorax convex, not margined, subquadrate; palpi of male pale at base; elytra 

 convex, punctate not granulate, strongly metallic, shining; markings 

 broad, not connected at margin ; surface shining. 



Front hairy, humeral lunule oblique riil$;i<ia. 



Front bald, humeral lunule C-shape echo. 



€. Tulgida Say, 1823, Jour. Ac. Phil, iii, 141 ; Lee. Ann. Lye. iv, 179, pi. 13, fig. 

 5 ; Schaupp, I. c. p. 92, pi. 3, fig. 59. 

 Length 10-13 mm.=.40-.52 inch. 



i7a6.— Kan., Neb., Dak., N. Mex., Wyom. 



Red cupreous, brilliant, highly polished, sometimes green, beneath 

 green ; elytral markings broad, consisting of obliquely descen(li!)g 

 humeral lunule, approaching and rarely connecting with middle 

 band, middle band entering perpendicularly, bent at a right angle 

 and expanded at extremity, and apical lunule. Head rugose, hairy 

 in front, labrum imperfectly three-toothed, interocular stri^ fine and 

 numerous; thorax moderately rugose, hairy at sides, impressed lines 

 deep, green at base; elytra strongly, evenly punctate, apical margin 

 minutely serrulate; beneath, the palpi, flanks of thorax, coxje and 

 femora are quite hairy, the sides of the abdomen less conspicuously. 



Mr. Knaus takes this species along the edges of the salt marsh 

 west of Kackley, Kan., in June and July ; Prof. Wickham found 

 it in September at Albuquerque, N. Mex., on a flat .sandy spot, a 



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