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 l)lack, 

 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 beneatli 

 gre<;a : trochanters and tail purple. 



The specimen from which this description and 

 the annexed representation Avere taken Avas a fc 



