( -i'-)^ ) 



XIV. Additions to the Cicindelidse fauna of Mexico, ivith 

 remarks on some of the 'previously-recorded species. 

 By Henry Walter Bates, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 



[Read May 7th, 1890.] 



Plate XVI. 



The object of the present paper is to make known the 

 additions to the coleopterous fauna of Mexico, as far as 

 regards the family Cicindelidce, which have been received 

 by Messrs. Godman and Salvin since the completion of 

 Coleoptera, vol. i., part 1, of the ' Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana,' and to describe such species and well- 

 marked varieties as appear to be new to Science, cor- 

 recting at the same time the descriptions and identifi- 

 cations of known species by the light of the more 

 complete material since received. In the * Biologia ' the 

 total number of CicindclidcB recorded was 61 belonging 

 to 5 genera. In the present paper the total is increased 

 to 78, the additions, 17 species, belonging all to the 

 restricted genus Cicindela. 



Cicindela ohsoleta, Say. 



Var. or race Santaclarce. 



Elytra utrinque maculis quatuor discretis (Ima humerali 2nda 

 infra humerali 3ia et 4ta medianis oblique positis) lunulaque 

 apicaii interdum interrupta apice intus recurva, albis. Colore 

 supra variat ; (1) sat laete viridis (sicut in C. campestris) et (2) pur- 

 pureo-fusca, opaca marginibus anguste Isetioribus. Long. IG — 

 20 mm. 



Hah. Santa Clara in Chihuahua {Hoge). 



Excepting the conspicuous and separated maculation 

 of the elytra this form shows no difference from the type- 

 form, and from numerous varieties of C. ohsoleta found in 

 Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, none of which exhibit 

 a similar number and form of spots. The second and 

 third spots are always distant from the margin, and the 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1890.— PART III. (SEPT.) 



