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of the elytra does not terminate in a transverse line with pe- 

 nultimate spot. Say insists on the differently colored margin, 

 as in C. purpurea, which is not visible in this. Q. decemnotata 

 is said to inhabit sandy alluvions of the Missouri ; this is always 

 found on mountains. It must be a new species, and may be 

 called Cicindela montana. I have never found it here, but Mr. 

 Mitchell brought me a phial full which were taken near the Pilot 

 Mountain. 



This is an extract from my journal on Feronia 49 : "This can- 

 not be F. limhata Say, if his description be correct. This is 

 much larger, and has some punctures on the marginal intersti- 

 tial line. It must be related however to Say's insect, and may 

 be the same." [49 Hentz mss. Catal. ^ yl^/ormw palliatum 

 Dej., limhatum? Say.] 



No. 799 is probably Clivina pallida, badly described by Say. 

 It is found as his Avas, under the bark of decaying pine trees, and 

 stinks exquisitely when alive, and for a considerable time after- 

 wards ; I know of no insect that has a worse smell. There is 

 no" marginal series of short transverse lines" that I can see, 

 but impressed dots, such as are seen there in so many insects. 

 When recent, the insect has on its elytra several dark 

 lines which are curved in the followino; manner. I 

 think, notwithstanding these lines, that it is not C. pal- 

 lipennis. The size, which is very uniform in all the '^' ' 

 specimens I have caught, does not correspond with the descrip- 

 tion of the latter, and the body is not black. If you strike out 

 the M'ord deeply before impressed punctures in Say's description 

 it will apply perfectly well to my 745. I think it must be that 

 insect. It is extremely common here in Boleti, or decayed 

 wood. The followino; is an extract from mv iournal on the 

 subject of 754, the last of those on which you wish for inform- 

 ation : "754. Uleiota Latr. (^Brontes c??//Jms ? Fabr.), The 

 male of this insect has an anomalous projection of its mandibles 

 which has not been mentioned by naturalists, at least to my 

 knowledge. The mandible which is simple in the* female, 



