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Habitat— Mass., N. Y., N. J., Va., N. C, S. C, Ga., Fla. 



July (near New York), April and June (Fla.). Occurs on mud 

 flats along the coast. 



Very close to the preceding from which it may be distinguished 

 by the narrower white margin and by the longer manibular tooth in 

 the male or the deflexed elytral apex in the female. The southern 

 specimens are more perfectly marked. 



CuPRASCENS group. 



Thorax flattened, slightly rounded at sides, nearly quadrate ; elytra with a basal 

 white spot, sinuate at apex % , emarginate 9 with a subapical tooth on 

 the external margin, except in blanda. 

 Elytral markings broad, confused, the surface more than half white. blan€la. 

 Elytral markings slender, not confused. 

 Middle band long and sinuous. 

 Subapical tooth 9 acute and prominent; apex 9 rounded, % obtuse. 



ciiprasceuM. 

 Subapical tooth 9 rectangular ; apex 9 obtusely truncate, %. subacute. 



piiritaiia. 

 Subapical tooth 9 rather obtuse ; apex 9 slightly prolonged 9 and %. 



var. inacra. 

 Middle band short, terminated by a short hook IVapIeri. 



Blanda is found in Ga. and N. C. on banks of rivers ; cuprascens 

 is found in Ky., Tex., Kan., Mo., Ark., Neb., Dak., on banks of 

 rivers ; puritana is found in N. Y., Conn., Mass., N. H., on banks 

 of rivers; macra is found in AVis., Minn., la., 111., Kan., on banks 

 of rivers; Wapleri is found in Miss., La., on banks of rivers. 



Blanda and Wapleri are readily distinguished ; the other three are 

 difficult to distinguish, doubtful cases occur and should be referred 

 to cuprascens — the older name. 



C. blanda Dej.. 1831, Spec, v, 238; Lee. Ann. Lye, iv, 138; Trans. Am. Phil., 

 xi, 49; Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1876, p. 238; Schaupp, I.e., p. 

 101 ; tarmlis Lee. Pioc. Ac. Nat. Sci., vi, 66. 

 Length 11-13 nim.=.44-.52 inch. 



Habitat. — Ga., N. C, on the banks of rivers. 



Green bronze above, the elytra in great part white; elytral mark- 

 ings very broad, consisting of basal dot connected on the base with 

 humeral lunule which is broad, and with a lumpy hook almost 

 touching the basal dot again, a middle band, broad, sinuate and con- 

 fused at its large extremity, an apical lunule very widely extended 

 and a broad white margin connecting all the marks. "Apical 



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