138 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vol. xxvi. 



A NEW RACE OF CICINDELA WITH NOTES ON 

 OTHER RACES AND SPECIES. 



By Charles W. Leng, 

 Staten Island, N. Y. 



In " The Cicindelinse of North America " published by Mr. E. D. 

 Harris and me, and distributed by the American Museum of Natural 

 History in 1916, the treatment of the American species by Dr. 

 Walther Horn in " Genera Insectorum " was made known to our 

 fellow students without any interpolation of our own views. That 

 some difference of opinion should exist is, however, natural, and it 

 is the purpose of the present paper to point out such differences as 

 they appear to me. My notes will refer to the genus Cicindela only 

 for Mr. Schaeffer has reviewed Amblycheila with more material in 

 hand than any other author has assembled, and Colonel Casey has 

 done the same for Omiis, so that Dr. Horn's treatment of those genera 

 has already been revised. 



In Cicindela there are a few instances in which I can not agree 

 v>'ith Dr. Horn's interpretation of the literature and the synonymy he 

 consequently proposes. These are : 



Cicindela scutellaris var. lecontei. 



Dr. Horn alters this to modesta because Dejean in 1825 (Spec. 

 Col., I, p. 52) described the color of modesta as " f usco-aenea " and 

 as " brun-obscur un pen bronze." giving an erroneous locality, 

 *' Saint-Domingue." His words fit better a faded specimen of var. 

 modesta than they do any specimen of var. lecontei. Dejean was 

 more likely in 1825 to have specimens from the Atlantic coast reach 

 him through Palisot de"Beauvois than from Nebraska, Manitoba, 

 Ontario, where var. lecontei occurs. Finally in 1831 Dejean (Spec. 

 Col., V, p. 210) says that modesta "noted in error in the collection 

 of Palisot de Beauvois as coming from Saint Domingo " is " probably 

 only a variety of rugifrons in which the color has become 'noir 

 obscur.' " Haldeman did not describe var. lecontei until 1853 and 

 there seems to me every evidence that Dejean knew nothing about 

 that variety. I propose, therefore, to retain Haldeman's name for 

 var. lecontei. 



