CICINDELA DECEMNOTATA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Green, above tinged with cupreous ; elytra 

 margined with bright green or bluish ; four 

 white spots and an intermediate refracted band. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Labrum three-toothed, white : mandibles black, 

 base white : elytra with a white spot on the 

 shoulder, another equidistant from the first and 

 the band : band broad, arising from the middle 

 of the margin, refracted at the centre of the ely- 

 trum, and terminated near the suture in a line 

 with the tip of the third spot ; this spot is large, 

 orbicular, and placed near the external tip of the 

 terminal one, which is transverse and triangular : 

 body beneath green : trochanters and tail purple. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



The specimen from which this description and 

 the annexed representation were taken, is a 



PLATE XVIII. 



