130 CHARLES W. LENG, 



the left bank of the Susquehanna near Chickies Station, between 

 Columbia and Marietta, Pa. ; by Mr. John D. Sherman, Jr., on 

 wooded hill northeast of Peekskill, N. Y. Mr. Blanchard has 

 taken it on the mountain roads of western North Carolina, with 

 C. sexgutiata and unipunctata. 



Specimens of sexgutiata occasionally occur with a middle band, 

 and clearly show the intimate relation of these two species, but the 

 rarity of such specimens shows that they should be regarded as sports. 



Var. eouseiitauea Dej., 1825, I.e., p. 63; Schanpp, /. c, p. 89, pi. 2, fig. 36. 

 Length 12-14 inm.=.48-.56 inch. 



Habitat. —Pa. ; Neb. (fide Schaupp) ; Pine Barrens of New Jersey. 

 Early spring until June, and from September to frost. 



Like the preceding, but black above and beneath. It is the least 

 abundant of the Pine Barren Cicindeke, but under favorable condi- 

 tions a dozen may be taken in a day. It has been taken by Mr. 

 Wm. T. Davis and Mr. Edw. D. Harris at Lakehurst, N. J., and 

 by Mr. Harris and the writer at Brook ville, N. J. The Philadel- 

 phia collectors take it at Atco. It frequents the roads through the 

 pine woods, and seems to prefer those which are little used, and are con- 

 sequently harder and more blackened by decaying vegetable matter. 



C. purpurea Oliv., 1794, Ent. ii, 33, p. 14, pi. 3, fig. 34 ; Say, Traus. Am. IMiil. 

 Soc, new ser., i, p. 419; Lee. Ann. Lye. iv, 176; marginalis Fab., El. i, 

 240; Herbst, Kafer, x, 175, pi. 171, fig. 10; Dej. Spec, i, 55; v, 210; 

 Schaupp, I.e., p. 89, pi. 2, fig. 37. 

 Length 12-16 mm.=.48-.64 inch. 



Habitat. — (All varieties included.) Canada from Province of 

 Quebec to Vancouver, and in all the United States, except possibly 

 the extreme southern States. 



Exceedingly variable in color and markings, this species is known 

 by the hairy front and granulate punctate elytra from closely allied 

 forms. Thorax convex, not margined, narrowed behind, deeply im- 

 pressed, granulate and rugose ; labrum three toothed ; a few hairs 

 above on the side of the thorax ; beneath, the palpi, flanks of protho- 

 rax, coxse and legs are conspicuously hairy, the abdomen sparingly 

 so. Omitting splendida, cimarrona and decemnotata, which are 

 sufficiently differentiated to rank as species, the differences in color, 

 marking and distribution, make the following varieties: 



Cupreous above. 

 Short oblique middle band, apical dot, usually auteapical dot, rarely humeral 

 dot purpurea. 



