172 CHARLES W. LENG. 



C Circuinpicta La Feite, Eev. et Mag. Zool., 1841, p. 39 and 143; Lee, I.e., 

 p. 58; Scbaupp, I.e., p. 104, pi. 4, fig. 101, 102; Johnsoni Fitch, New 

 York Agr. Soc, 1856, p. 487. 

 Length 11-14.5 mm.^=.44-.58 inch. 



Habitat— Tex., N. Mex., Ariz., Neb., Kan. Mr. Knaus finds 

 this species on salt marsh, in June, July and less commonly in 

 August, in the vicinity of Fredonia, Kansas. It is most abundant 

 near the waters edge, where the bare saline ground is moist and 

 warm, and in sheltered offshoots where the sun shines hottest. 



Green, blue, cupreous, brown or almost black above ; beneath 

 dark green bronze, densely pubescent at the sides ; elytral markings 

 consist of a broad white margin, more or less lobed internally to 

 indicate the posterior part of the humeral lunule and the beginning 

 of the middle baud and the anterior part of the apical lunule. In 

 the race inhabiting S. W. Texas the color is very dark and the mid- 

 dle band is represented by an oblique line connected with the mar- 

 gin, as is Schauppii. Head striate between and in front of the eyes, 

 granulate on the occiput, not hairy ; labrum three-toothed ; thorax 

 very shining and sti'ongly rounded at the sides, feebly rugose, with 

 a fringe of hair on each side apparent in well-preserved specimens ; 

 elytra parallel, strongly punctured, especially towards the base, con- 

 jointly rounded S , separately rounded 9 , serrulate at apex ; beneath, 

 palpi, pleurae, legs, flanks of thorax and sides of abdomen are 

 clothed with decumbent pubescence; legs long, palpi pale, trochan- 

 ters purplish, anus usually testaceous. 



Var. prsetextnta Lee, 1854, Proc. Ac. Phil., vii, 220 ; Trans. Am. Phil., xi. p. 

 58 ; Schaupp, I. c, p. 104, pi. 4, fig. 104 (this figure does not represent 

 middle band correctly). 

 Length 14-14.5 nim.=.56-.58 inch. 



Habitat— Tex., N. Mex., Ariz., Utah. 



Differs in the shape of the middle band, which starts immediately 

 behind the humeral lunule and runs obliquely until it almost touches 

 the apical lunule, the anterior portion of which is also somewhat 

 prolonged. 



Var. californica Men., 1844, Bull. Ac. Petr., II, p. 52; Lee. Trans. Am. Phil. 

 Soc, xi, p. 44 and p. G2 (figure) ; Schaupp, I. c, p. 104. 

 Length 14 mm. ^=.56 inch 



Habitat.— Sun Jose del Cabo, Cape region of Lower Cal. In this 

 variety the color is dark bronze and the marginal line is interrupted 

 in front of the apical lunule. The connection between the humeral 



