AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 159 



Hist, i, 54 ; Lee. Ann. Lye, i v, 182 ; Trans. Am. Phil, xi, p. 53 ; Schaupp, 

 I. c, p. 97, pi. 3, fig. 77, 76. 

 Length 10-13 mra.=r.40-.52 inch. 



^a^ito^.— Canada west to Manitoba, Me. to Fla., La., Tex., Col., 

 N. Mex., Ariz., Ohio, Iowa, Wis. 



Form slender, legs long; black, dark bronze or green-bronze 

 above, head and thorax more metallic ; beneath greenish blue ; 

 elytral markings variable, at the most consisting of an interrupted 

 humeral luuule, an interrupted middle band connecting with a short 

 marginal band and a complete apical lunule; usually the markings 

 consist of a few minute white dots, and specimens rarely occur 

 which are immaculate; head glabrous, striate in front; thorax sub- 

 cylindrical, convex and slightly rounded at the sides which are 

 sparsely hairy, very finely granulate ; elytra finely serrulate at apex, 

 densely punctured with a row of unusually large foveolse near the 

 suture which are often metallic at base. Beneath sparsely hairy on 

 the usual parts. 



Eastern and southern specimens are usually dark colored, and a 

 race living in Louisiana is practically black above. The specimens 

 from Col., N, Mex., Texas and Arizona are more brilliant approach- 

 ing the next but never reaching its color. 



Dr. LeConte's remark that this species is " frequently seen in the 

 streets of our largest cities," has been often quoted, and is still as 

 true as when printed in 1856. Fimctulata seems partial to dusty 

 roads, hard garden paths and the well-trodden roads of parks, and 

 being a strong flier, it even invades the paved streets of down town 

 New York, where I have personally seen it flying. 



Var. micaus Fab., 1801, Ent. Syst. Suppl. 61 ; Syst. EL, i, 238 ; Lee, I. c, Schaupp, 

 I. c, pi. 3, fig. 78. 

 Length 12-13.5 mm.=.48-.54 inch. 



Habitat— l!i . Mex., Ariz., Colo., Kan, 



Brilliant green or blue, head and thorax sometimes bronze ; 

 larger but otherwise the same as punetulata. 



ToRTUOSA group. 



Thorax subcylindrical, rounded at the sides, scarcely narrowed behind, finely 

 granulate, sparsely hairy; palpi pale at base; elytra with narrow 

 markings, the middle band very tortuous tortuosa. 



€. tortuosa Dej., 1825, Sp. Gen., i, 87; Lee. Ann. Lye. 4, 181, pi. 14, fig. 10; 

 Schaupp, I.e., p. 98, pi. 3, fig. 73, 74; pi. 6, fig. 143; trifasciata Klug., 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXVIII. JUNE, 1902. 



