148 CHARLES W. LENG. 



thiuly clothed with loug white hair. The sides of the abdomen are 

 also hairy, but inconspicuously so. 



This species is widely distributed and very abundant. The sides 

 of the elytra are subparallel in the male, suddenly dilated before 

 the middle in the female. 



Var. iinijuiicta Casey, I. c, p. 299. 



Habitat. -El Paso, Tex. ; N. Mex., Ariz. 



This variety differs in having the white markings of the elytra 

 broader and in having the humeral lunule and the middle band 

 united by the marginal line. It is but feebly differentiated from 

 repanda. 



C diiodeeim-s^ultata Dej., Spec, 1825, i, 73; Gould, Bost. Jour., i, 51, ])\. 

 3, fig. 3; Lee, /. c, p. 42; Schaupp, I. c, p. 95, pi. 3, fig. 63; pi. 6, fig. 

 135; proteus Kirby, Faun. Bor. Am., iv, p. 9. 

 Length 12.5-15 mni.^.50-.60 inch. 



Habitat. -Caimda, Me., Conn., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Md., Va., Tex., 

 L. Sup., Manitoba, Wis. ; probably all the United States east of the 

 Rocky Mts. 



On account of the confusion regarding this species I have not 

 used any localities outside my own collection and that of Mr. Har- 

 ris and those recorded by Dr. LeConte. 



Brown bronze, or sometimes coppery, greenish or blue; beneath 

 green ; elytral markings consist of humeral, posthumeral, apical and 

 anteapical dots, and a very narrow middle band scarcely reaching 

 the discal dot. Rarely a portion of the marginal line 'is vi.sible 

 behind and connecting with the middle band. Head and thorax as 

 in repanda, except that the thorax is shorter and less convex ; elytra 

 gradually broader behind the hunieri, granulate-punctate, serrulate 

 at apex. Beneath the hairs are arranged as in repanda. 



This species is commonly confused with repanda and oregoua. 

 From the first it may be separated usually by the absence of com- 

 plete markings and always by the more flattened form, by the shorter 

 and less convex thorax, and by the elytra of the female being only 

 gradually dilated. From oregona it may be separated, as indicated 

 by Mr. Fall, by the more evidently narrowed thorax and by the 

 hairy front, as well as by the geographical distribution. The habits 

 of the two species where they occur together, as in the Pine Barrens 

 of New Jersey, are quite different. Repanda occurs in many situa- 



