158 J. L. LECONTE, M. D. 



but both he and Crotch, who has followed him in the "Check List," 

 have omitted to observe that in this consolidation of names, Scutellaria 

 (1823), must take precedence over rwji/rons (1825). 



€. 10-nof at a Say. 



One % differs from the others in my collection by having the labial 

 palpi pale, with the last joint metallic. This species is very closely 

 allied to some of the races of C. splendida, but the prothorax is smaller 

 and more convex, and the medial band of the elytra runs much farther 

 backward. The form next mentioned is however nearly intermediate 

 in the latter respect. 



a. — Two specimens from California, of a bright green color, marked 

 nearly as in lO-notata, but the humeral and post-humeral spots are 

 absent, and the medial band is a little shorter. 



,3. — A male specimen from Nebraska, of a bright green color, the 

 spots much reduced in size, and the medial band represented only by 

 its outer part, which is perpendicular to the side margin of the elytra. 

 The labial palpi are pale, with the last joint dark. 



C hyperborea Lcc, New Species, Smiths. Misc. Coll. 1.; var. C. limbata 

 11 Say, Journ. Acad. III., 139, 



This long lost insect has been recently found by Mr. E. P. Austin 

 of the U. S. Coast Survey, on hills of white sand in Northern Nebraska, 

 and proves to be a form of the species, which in 

 its normal marking was described by me as C. 

 hi/perhorea ; I repeat here the two wood cuts 

 given by Dr. Horn (Proc. Ac. 1866, 397), and 

 add one of this extreme variety to show how 

 easily by a slight variation in breadth of mark- 

 ings a quite different appearance will result. The description of Say 

 relates solely to color, and therefore the identity of his species with 

 liypcrhorea could never have been suspected. In consequence of this 

 determination the name limbigtra proposed by Gemminger and Harold, 

 Cat. Col. 20, to replace the preoccupied name used by Say, becomes 

 unnecessary. 



C Wapleri. — Elongate, slender, allied to C. cuprascens, with the elytra 

 equally coppery and deeply j)unctured; side margin broadly white; 



a basal spot small, humeral lunule curved, not hooked behind; medial 

 band suddenly refracted, and hooked, not extending far backwards, 

 and not curved in a signjoid manner as in C cuprascens / white lobe 

 representing apical lunule very broad, obtuse. Other characters as in 

 C. cuprascens. Length 10 mm.; .40 inch. 

 ^. — Prothorax cylimlrical rather less rounded on the sides than 

 in C. cuprascens; elytra obliquely broadly subsinuate near the tip. 

 $ , not seen. 



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