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Cicindela obscura Say. 



This name, cited by Dr. Horn for the race we call modcsta, was 

 preoccupied. Dr. Horn gives the citation " Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, 

 1818, p. 418, pi. 13, fig. 7." and differentiates the insect there described 

 from the modest a of Dejean 1831 and subsequent authors. To me 

 they seem synonymous as they did to Dejean and, obscura being pre- 

 occupied, the use of the name modesta is justified for the black form 

 of sciifcUaris. 



Cicindela trifasciata var. tortuosa Dej. 



Dr. Horn changes this to asccndens Lee, remarking that in the 

 Banks Collection there is a specimen of ascendcns labelled Jamaica 

 under trifasciata. Dejean described tortuosa in 1825 from North 

 America and the Antilles as differing from the South American tri- 

 fasciata. Leconte's description of ascendcns was made in 1851. I 

 can not see any reason for preferring it to Dejean's name. 



There are also a few instances in which Dr. Horn points out the 

 double use of a name without supplying a new name for the second 

 use. These are : 



Cicindela purpurea var. auduboni Lee. 



This name was first assigned by Leconte (Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., V, 1845, P- 207) to a green variety of purpurea from Yellow- 

 stone River. Later (Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, XI, 1856, p. 37) he 

 used the same name for the black variety, in which he has been fol- 

 lowed by subsequent authors till now. Unfortunately the first use 

 will have priority and I propose nigcrrima in place of auduboni 

 Lee, 1856, for the black variety of purpurea. The Cicindela grami- 

 nea of Schaupp will come close to being a synonym of auduboni as 

 originally defined, but Dr. Horn retains both names. 



Cicindela cartagena var. hentzi Geo. H. Horn. 



I propose for the Lower Californian insect the name lientziana, 

 which Dr. Horn in Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci.. 1894, p. 307, wrongly called 

 hentzi Dej. 



Cicindela spreta Lee. 



This name was originally applied (Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 1848, p. 177) to a dark form of limbalis occurring in Maine, for 



