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FAMILY I.— CICINDELID.K. 



<\ Ion(/iIal)rw Say i)robnl)ly occurs sparingly in the northern 

 third of the State, as its range in -hides Michigan and Wisconsin. 



fo (l!»e). CiciNDELA sciTELT^Ris LEcoNTEi HaM., I'roc. Phil. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. yi. 1S53, 3G1. 

 Elytra iinrplisli <ii- coppery bronze with njtical hniule, one or 

 two marginal spots and sometimes with a hnnieral spot, these 

 rarely continent. Front hairy in male, nearly bald in fenraie. 



T,. ,, Feni'i-a. flanks of thorax and front and middle coxie rather dense- 

 rig. 11. 

 (AfterLeng I Iv clothed with Iniiti" white hair. Length 12 mm. (Fig. 11.) 



This handsome variety of tlie western species Scutellaria has so 

 far been taken only in Lake and Toiler counties, and is probably 

 confined to the sandy areas of th.e noil hwestern portion of the State. 

 AVhere found it is fre(|nent in (»p(ii sandy spots and along sandy 

 pathways, usually dislani from w;dcr. April 21-September 9. 



Fig. 14. 

 (.\fter Wickham.) 



Fig. 15 



4 (24). CiciXDELA SEXGi-TTATA Fab.. 8yst. Ent.. 177."). 22<;. 



Bright grccii aliove, olten wit'.i a strong blnish reHectimi; each 

 elytron with (;ne to five whitt' d .ts. tlu'se sometimes indistinct or 

 even wholly lacking. Fr.int int hairy: nnder snrfa<-e with only 

 a few scattered white hairs. Elytra convex, grannlate-punctate. 

 Length 10-14 mm. (Figs. 12 and 10.) 



Throughout the State; frequent. April 9-September 

 15. One of the most attractive of our tiger beetles. It is,J,jLe^„g, 

 found most frequently along pathways in open woodlands; 

 also often on logs, lieneath the loose bark of which it hides by night 

 and in cloudy weatlier. T1 has been noted on the cement sidewalks 

 near the center of Tndiaiia])olis. 



r> (24b). CiciNDEi.A rAiRii:! \ l>e.j.. Spec., I. 1s2."i. ('.2. 



Uesendtles s<:r</iil hihi bnl nsnally larger mid sonicwlial darkei-. Me- 

 dian band -.nui nfrco the Innneial liinule miiiplete ; ;ipii-al and anteaiiical 

 iidts more disliiici. riuier -ide niiu-li in n-e luiry. tlie eex.-r. pru- and metas 

 ternn being esiiecially pilnse. Lengtli 12 14. fi mm. 



