176 CHARLES W. LENG. 



Middle hand short and nearly transverse. 



Blackish brown, spots small riiliventris. 



Blackish brown, spots large. 



Middle baud reaching margin var. Hentzii. 



Middle band not reaching margin var. 16-puiiCtata. 



Blue, spots small or lacking var. ciiinatilis. 



Cupreous, spots large • var. arizoute. 



C. hsemorrhagica Lee, 1849, Ann. Lye, v, 171; Chaud. Bull. Mosc, 1854; 

 Lee, Trans. Am. Phil., xi, p 55 ; Schaupp, I. c, p. 105, pi. 4, fig. 108, 109. 

 Length 10-16 mm.=.40-.64 inch. 



Habitat— ^o. Cal., Utah, Nev., N. Mex , Ariz. Occurs on dark 

 sand along the bay beach at San Diego and on alkaline flats in 

 April and May and in San Bernardino Co., Cal., and at a number 

 of stations in the other States named. 



Greenish black, sericeous above, black beneath, abdomen red ; 

 head and thorax and beneath sometimes more metallic; elytral 

 markings consist of humeral lunule, broken or entire, middle band 

 sinuate, descending obliquely and often broader at its extremity, 

 supplementary marginal and discal dots and apical lunule ; some- 

 times there is a short marginal line connected with the middle band 

 and sometimes the supplementary discal dot is connected with the 

 apical lunule. Head very finely striate all over, not hairy; thorax 

 subquadrate, impressions not deep, surface feebly scuptured, a feeble 

 fringe of hair on each side ; elytra very faintly punctulate, con- 

 jointly rounded at apex, which is finely serrulate ; beneath, palpi 

 and trochanters are pale. 



J Var. pacifica Schaupp, 1884, I.e., p. 106, pi. 4, fig. 110. 

 Length 13-15 mm.=.52-.60 inch. 



Habitat. — Southern California ; found along fresh water streams 

 at San Diego and San Bernardino ; on the ocean front at Del Mar 

 (Fall). 



" Differs from hcemorrhagica only by the color of the elytra which 

 "are olivaceous, opaque greenish or bluish; head, thorax, margin, 

 " suture and apex of the elytra more shining, no markings at all." 

 (Schaupp.) 



v. rnfiveiitris Dej., 1825, Spec, i, 102 ; Lee, Trans. Am. Phil., xi, 56 ; Schaupp, 

 I.e., p. 106, pi. 4, fig. 112, 113. 

 Length 8-12 mm.=.32-.48 inch. 



Habitat— 1^. J., Md , D. C, Va., W. Va., N. C, Ala., Ky. 

 This species is very local in its habits, and the area in which it 



