1,32 CHARLES W. LENG. 



Var. i^raminea Schaupp, 1883, I.e., p. 89, pi. 2, fig. 38. 



Reproduces the markings of pvi'jnirea, but the color above is green 

 with a cupreous tinge on the thorax and on the margin of the elytra. 

 The cupreous tinge disappears as the locality moves westward, and 

 Pacific coast specimens may be green without any cupreous shade. 

 As noted under purptirea, a specimen occasionally occurs in the East 

 which can hardly be separated from graminea, but the true range of 

 this variety is in the West. 



Occurs in Kan. ; Colo. ; Cal. ; Dak. ; Mont. ; Or. 



Var. denverensis Casey, 1897, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. ix, p. 297. 



Bright golden green above, brighter than in sexguttata, green 

 beneath. Normally the markings consist of a short transverse dash 

 at the middle and an apical dot or incomplete lunule; but rarely the 

 humeral dot, post humeral dot, or the ante-apical dot may be present 

 and Mr. Harris has one specimen in which, besides the post-humeral 

 dot, the middle band is complete. 



Occurs at Denver, Colo. 



Var. liidoviciana. n. var. — Form oi purpurea, blue beneath, head and thorax 

 blue, elytra green with blue side margins and suture and a faint coppery lustre 

 oil the disk, not evident in all specimens. Markings consist of a small transverse 

 dash at the middle, sometimes lacking, and a transverse apical dot. Labrum three 

 toothed, head punctate in front, interocular strife strong and numerous, punctate 

 behind the eyes; the nsnal brush of hair between the eyes; thorax punctate, 

 rugose, concolorous; elytra granulate-punctate; not hairy above, beneath, the 

 palpi, flanks of thorax and legs are moderately hairy. 



Occurs at Vowell's Mill, Nachitoches Parish, in the northwestern 

 part of Louisiana. Collected by Mr. George Coverdale. April and 

 September. 



Var. spreta Lee, Ann. Lye. iv, 177, pi. 13, fig. 7; Schaupp, /. c, p. 90. 



This variety is simply a limbalis in which the usual cupreous color 

 has become completely suffused with green, as in those eastern speci- 

 mens of purpurea which mimic the western graminea. 



Mr. Harris took a number of this form running with typical lim- 

 balis at Mt. Desert. It is doubtful whether the name should be 

 retained at all. Prof. Schaupp describes this form as " black with 

 markings complete," but the original description, the original colored 

 figure and the specimen in Leconte collection show this to be an error. 



Occurs in Maine and Wisconsin. 



Var. Aiiduboiiii Lee, 1845, Bost. Jour, v, 207, pi. 18, fig. 7; Schaupp, I. c, 

 p. 90, pi. 2, fig. 39. 



