to the CicindeUdce fauna of Mexico. 499 



oblique and thickened at its inner end ; a submarginal 

 praeapical spot is the only other white marking. The 

 elytra in both sexes are conjointly rounded at the apex, 

 with small sutural tooth, the margin not serrulated. 

 Beneath greenish seneous, the episterna coppery feneous 

 and more brilliant. The femora and tibiie cupreous, 

 the tarsi violaceous. The palpi whitish, with the termi- 

 nal, in the maxillaries also the penultimate joint, 

 metallic. The sides of the body beneath, especially the 

 abdomen and metasternum, are clothed not densely with 

 long incumbent pubescence, the episterna being nearly 

 glabrous and partially strigulose and punctured. 



Cicindela (juerrerensis. (PL XVI., fig. 5). 



C. ceneicolli (Bates) et punctulatce, Fab., affinis. Elongata 

 supra cuprea capite et thorace nitidis elytris subopacis his puncto 

 sublaterali infra humeros fascia tenui post-median obliqua S-formi 

 (marginem hand attingenti) lunulaque tenui apicali autice oblique 

 recurva et paullulum incrassata, albis ; interdum linea tenui alba 

 margiuali inter fasciam et lunulam ; thorace angusto lateribus 

 rectissimis. Long. 11 — 12 mm. $ . 



Hah. Tepetlapa in Guerrero {H. H. Smith) ; Chil- 

 pancingo in Guerrero [Hoge). 



Two examples, one ^ rich coppery above, the other 

 a ? , evidently discoloured, dull coppery brown, both 

 agreeing in nearly all other respects. The labrum is 

 similar in form to that of C. ceiieicolUs, the produced 

 middle part having a truncated edge unispinose in the 3' , 

 and with the angles produced, and therefore subtrispinose 

 in the 2 ; the penultimate joint of the labial palpi is 

 white in the cT , and dull fuscous in the $ . The apex 

 of the elytra is the same in both sexes, being conjointly 

 and acutely rounded, with an acute spine at the sutural 

 angle. The eyes are only raoderately prominent, and 

 the head appears narrow; the forehead and the concave 

 vertex are closely striated, coppery red, with two cyaneous 

 vittae. The thorax is very finely rugulose-striate, the 

 depressions cyaneous, the sides pubescent. The aluta- 

 ceous elytra are subsparsely and equally punctulate, the 

 points cyaneous and free from accompanying granules, 

 and the usual umbilicated foveoles are seen near the 

 base only. Beneath the colour is cyaneous, with the 

 episterna brilliant fiery copi;ery. The legs are cupreous 



