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alarmed, it rises quickly for a long sustained flight high above the 

 ground. One took three flights in trying to escape, aggregating 420 

 yards. Owing to its size and rapidity it is a formidable foe to other 

 insects. Black and green forms, maculate and almost immaculate, 

 were intermingled. In Meade Co., Kansas, Prof. Popenoe has taken 

 this species on roads and prairies, preferring bare ground, but not 

 shunning short growth of vegetation. 



Var. Saiitaclarse Bates, 1890, Trans. Ent. Soc, London, p. 493. 

 This variety, described from Mexico, is simply a green form of 

 vulturina. 



Unipunctata group. 



C iinipniictata Fab., 1775, Syst. Ent., p. 225; Oliv. Ent., ii, 33, p. 23, pi. 4, 



fig. 27 ; Say, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, i, new ser., t. 13 ; Say (Lee. Ed.), 

 ii, 425 and 522 ; Schaupp, p. 86, pi. 1, fig. 18. 

 Length 16 to 18 mm. ^= .64-.72 inch. 



Habitat.—^. Y. ; N. J. ; Pa, ; Ga. ; Mo. ; la. ; Ky. ; N. C. May, 

 June, July and August. 



Brown, opaque, sericeous, beneath dark blue; elytra flattened to 

 an unusual extent, uneven by irregular depressions, with closely 

 placed green punctures and dispersed green foveolse. The markings 

 consist of a marginal triangular white spot on each elytron. This 

 species is nearly without the white hairs ; above a feeble fringe on 

 each side the thorax and beneath a few hairs on the femora and the 

 palpi are all that are visible. The middle tibiae of the % have the 

 usual hairs. 



This species shuns the sunny situations frequented by the other 

 species. It frequents roads through the woods, and instead of flying 

 when alarmed it frequently creeps under leaves and stones. Mr. 

 Nathan Reist finds it near York Furnace, Pa., Mr. George A. Ehr- 

 mann finds it at Brown's Woods, near Pittsburg, Pa., Mr. Frederick 

 Blanchard found it in Western N. C, Prof. Wickham found it once 

 in Cedar Co., Iowa, Mr. H. W. Wenzel finds it in New Jersey, Mr. 

 Charles Dury found it in the woods of Carter Co., Ky., and all give 

 a similar account of its habits. 



Longilabris group. 



C longilabris Say, 1824, Long's Exp. App., p. 268; Lee. Ed., i, p. 176; alU- 

 labris Ky., Fn. Bor. Am. iv, 12, pi. 1 ; Schaupp, I. c, p. 86, pi. 1, fig. 19. 

 Length 13-17 mm = .52-68 inch. 



TKANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXVIII. MARCH, 1902. 



