AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 153 



Var. hyperborea Lee, 1863, S. M. C, 167, p. 1. 

 Length 11 mm. =.45 inch. 



Habitat. — Methy Portage, Hudson Bay Territory; Mr. R. Ken- 

 uicott. This locality is in 57° N. Lat., about 500 miles north of 

 the boundary between U. S. and Canada. 



Dr. LeConte's description is as follows: "Dark cupreous above, 

 "front finely striate each side and sparsely pilose; thorax subquad- 

 " rate, slightly convex, densely less slightly rugose, clothed with 

 " white hair on the flanks, elytra a little wider behind the base, 

 "granulate punctate, rounded and serrulate at apex, with a promi 

 "nent sutural spine; humeral lunule obliquely prolonged behind, 

 " middle band obtusely refracted and oblique behind, margin and 

 "before the apex a little dilated, all broadly white; beneath green- 

 " ish, shining, sides hairy, hibrum short, one-toothed, labial palpi 

 " with the next to the last joint pale in both sexes. Males with the 

 "second joint of the maxillary palpi pale at apex." 



The markings of the types in the LeConte collection are very 

 broad, following the pattern of beUisdma, and indicating that a 

 further extension of the white would make the limbata marking. 

 Owing to the inaccessability of the region where these specimens 

 were collected, this is the rarest of Cicindelse in collections. The 

 specimens fi-om Oregon, which Prof. Schaupp called hyperborea, are 

 not that variety, but bellisslma. 



Tenuisignata group. 



Thorax slightly convex, not margined, subcylindrical ; palpi pale at base; front 

 lialdjStriate to thelabrum which is one toothed ; elytra suddenly dilated 

 in the female, uniformly punctured, serrulate at tip; elytral markings 

 very slender, the middle band unusually prolonged .teimisignsita. 



C teiiiiisignata Lee, 1852, Ann., Lye. v, 171 ; Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, xi, 44 ; 

 Schaupp, /. c, p. 97, pi. 3, fig. 67, pi. 6, fig. 142. 

 Length 10-12 mm.=.40-.48 inch. 



Habitat. —The Needles, Cal. ; N. Mex., Columbus, Tex., El Paso, 

 Texas. 



Brown-bronze, beneath metallic green ; elytral markings very 

 slender, consisting of humeral lunule curved, middle band slightly 

 bent, oblique, very long, connected with a white marginal line, and 

 apical lunule normal. The impressions of the thorax are not very 

 deep, nor are they always green at base. Above, this species has a 

 decumbent fringe of white hair on each side of the thorax ; beneath 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXVIII. (20) JUNE, 1902. 



