March, 1913.] Frederick Blanchard. 69 



Taken by D. E. Lantz on a newly worked road at the side of a 

 gravel hill in Jefferson, Col, in July, in company with C. laurentii and 

 C. graminea. 



Its resemblance to several of the alkaline lake forms in its mark- 

 ings renders it a peculiarly interesting species, but it is readily sep- 

 arated from them by its distinctly toothed labrum, the smoother and 

 less shining elytral surface, and the slight but significant differences in 

 the maculation. 



Cicindela debilis var. segnis new var. (fig. 3). 



Head, thorax and elytral ground dark green ; beneath green, shiny ; macu- 

 lation a continuous whitish band the entire elytral length slightly removed 

 from the margin except near the apex, the positions of the lunules and middle 

 band indicated by slight widenings of the marginal band ; frequently the middle 

 band is existent as a narrow, faint oblique line, nearly straight, somewhat 

 broadened at sutural termination. 



Eyes large, front finely rugose, thorax narrow, as wide as long, nearly 

 cylindrical, slightly pilose at sides, humeral angles square, elytra shagreened, 

 in form regularly ovate, separated posteriorly along the sutural line nearly one 

 third the length, rounded at apex, and at sutural angle terminated with short 

 black spine, which is more pronounced in the male. Length 9-10 mm. 



Taken running on sand at Sonoita, Ariz., by Eugene G. Smyth 

 in July. 



A varietal name seems to be warranted for a form so widely 

 removed geographically from the type locality (Durango, Mexico), 

 by the difference in the elytral sculpture, in its larger size, and in its 

 color. Bates described debilis as " fiisco-nigra, raro viridis, suhtus 

 nigra vel cyanea." All the Arizona specimens secured by Smyth 

 were green. 



FREDERICK BLANCHARD. 



In the death of Frederick Blanchard on November 2, 1912, the 

 students of North American beetles have lost a faithful aid and 

 correspondent, and many of us a dear friend. 



Frederick Blanchard, the son of Cornelius and Sarah (Sherburne) 

 Blanchard, was born August 20, 1843, ^t Lowell, Mass., and lived 

 there and at Tyngsboro, all his life. His business life was spent in 

 the First National Bank of Lowell, and in the Prescott National Bank 



