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occurs is liable to be very limited in extent. This is well illustrated 

 by its distribution in New Jersey. In spite of the large number of 

 New York and Philadelphia collectors who hunt in New Jersey, 

 rufiventris remained undiscovered until my friend. Dr. William T. 

 Davis found it in July, two years ago, on the East Plains, a desert 

 ■ tract of stunted pines and oaks, near Brookville, about ten miles 

 inland from Barnegat. In Kentucky, Mr. Charles Dury has found 

 it on "knobs" near Danville and at Cattletsburg in July. In Vir- 

 ginia, it has been found at Lanexa in July and in Bath Co., in the 

 western mountains, in September. Dr. LeConte says it is found in 

 the Alleghany Mts. from Md. to Ala. 



Dark brown, bronzed above, bluish green beneath, abdomen red ; 

 elytral markings consist of humeral and posthuraeral dots, short, 

 transverse, sinuate middle band, sometimes broken, supplementary 

 marginal dot, supplementary discal dot and apical lunule, usually 

 entire. These markings are often partly lacking and are never 

 large. Otherwise it is very similar to Juemorrhagica. 



I Var. ciiraatilis Lee, 1852, Ann. Lye. v, 172; Trans. Am. Phil., xi, p. 56; 

 Schaupp, I. c, p. 106, pi. 4, fig. 115; Guexiana Chev. Mag. et Revue de 

 Zool., 1852, p. 424. 

 Length 9-12 mra.=.36-.48 inch. 



Habitat— A\si., La., Texas. Recently collected by Mr. George 

 Coverdale, Vowell's Mill, Nachitoches Parish, La. August. 



Blue above and beneath, abdomen red; elytral markings the 

 same as in rufiventris, but there is a strong tendency in the markings 

 to disappear, and I have received from Mr. Coverdale specimens in 

 which only the apical lunule remained. 



V Var. Hentzii Dej., 1831. Spec, v, p. 428; Lee. Ann. Lye, iv, p. 182; Trans. Am. 

 Phil. Soc., xi, p. 55 ; Schaupp, I. c, p. 106, pi. 4, fig. 114 ; hxmorrhoidalis\\ 

 Hentz, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, new ser., iii, 254, pi. 2, fig. 2 ; Gould, Bost. 

 Jour., i, 52, pi. 3, fig. 5. 

 Length 10 13 mm.=.40-.52 inch. 



Habitat. -"Slass. Discovered by Dr. T. W. Harris on the summit 

 of Blue Hill, Milton, Mass., and occurs also in Medford, (Houcester, 

 Brookline, West Roxbury and Maiden. June to August. Recently 

 collected by Mr. L. E. Hood of Somerville, Mass. Dr. Gould says 

 " It does not prefer the sand and the plain, but its habit is to bask 

 " on the broad flat masses of granite which rise above the soil, re- 

 " tiring to the patches of moss and lichen which vegetate in the 



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