FAMILY CICINDELID^. 37 



' long and dark green ; tips and teeth black, with a white spot at base ; palpi yel- 

 ' lowish white ; terminal joints green. Trunk briUiant cupreous at the sides. Thorax 

 ' quadrate, brassy green, hairy. Elytra densely punctured.' 



GovLi), Traas. Bost. Nat. Hist. Societv. 



Abdomen greenish blue ; tail purple. 



According to Gould, it is closely allied to the hirticollis, with which it has been con- 

 founded. 



CiCINDELA PUNCTULATA. 



Color obsciu'e cupreous. Elytra purplish green and blue ; beneath varied with blue and 

 purple. An angular cream-colored line runs along the outer and posterior margin of 

 the elytra ; the anterior and outer angle marked with cream-color. 

 According to Govld, it has but a single brood in a season, which appears about the 

 middle of July and remains till September- 

 Common in diy places, paths in lields, etc. 



CiCINDELA DcouKciMGUTTATA ( Dejean). . ( Plate xvii, fig. 3.) 



Insect bronze above. Elytra with a narrow interrupted lunule, with spots near the suture 

 replacing the termination of the lunule. Head pale and obscurely bronze ; front pu- 

 bescent with cinereous hairs ; labriun white ; mandibles dark green, with a white 

 spot at base ; palj>i dark green. Trunk quadrate and rather short ; feet green ; thighs 

 cupreous. Beneath metallic greenish or blue ; sides of the thorax and breast cupreous. 

 It is a common species, and appears early. 



Goru) ill Trans. Bost. N»t. Hist. Society, PI. iii, fig. 3. 



CiCINDELA HJEMORRHoiDALis ( Hcntz). ( Plate xvii, fig. 5.) 



He.ntz, Trans. Am. Phil. Society, Now series, III, 254; pi. ii, fig. 2. 



Haubis, New.England Farmer, VII, 91. 



C. htntzii, Dejeak, Spec, dcs Coleoptercs, V. 1. 



Color bluish black above, or obscurely cupreous. Small hiuneral lunule entire ; posterior 

 one subentire ; intermediate one sinuate and angular, white. Marginal dot white. 

 Abdomen ferruginous. 

 Length variable, not exceeding half an inch : one of the smallest of the species. 



Head cupivous, with two linos between the eyes ; eyes large and prominent, brown, with 

 fine striae around them ; ba&il joints of the antenna; lironzed green, tlie others obscure 

 brown ; labrum dingy white, somewhat rounded before, with six marginal punctures 

 bearing hairs ; mandibles short, dark green ; second joint of labials whitish. Thowx 

 quadrate, as long as broad, obscure cupreous ; marginal impressed lines greenish blr.r : 



