PLATE VI. 
CICINDELA DECEMNOTATA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Green, above tinged with cupreous ; elytra mar- 
gined with bright green or bluish ; four white spots 
and an intermediate refracted band. 
Inhabits the sandy alluvions of the Missouri, 
above the confluence of the river Platte. 
Labrum three-toothed, white; mandibles black, 
base white ; elytra with a white spot on the shoul- 
der, another equidistant from the first and the band ; 
band broad, arising from the middle of the mar- 
gin, is refracted at the centre of the elytron and 
terminated near the suture in a line with the tip of 
the third spot; this last 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. | 
The specimen from which this description and 
the annexed representation were taken was a fe- 
