500 Mr. H. W. Bates's additions 



in certain lights, and the sides of the body, especially the 

 abdomen, are clothed with longish scarcely adpressed 

 hairs. 



Cicindela speculans. (PI. XVI., fig. 6). 



C. prceciscB affinis, minor et minns convexa ; aeneo vel cupreo- 

 fusca subopaca ; elytris vitta lata abbreviata marginali (a basi 

 usque ad medium) ramulum flexuosum versus disciim emittenti 

 politissima, post-medium fasciola tenui flexuosa discoidali guttaque 

 posteriori (iuterdum deficienti) a margine longe distant!, albis; 

 thorace sicut in C. prcecisa postice angustato lateribusque rectis 

 vel ( ^ solum ?) leviter rotundatis. Long. 65 — 1\ mm. $ ? • 



Hah. Omilteme in Guerrero, 8000 ft. {H. H. Smith). 



This curious little species is evidently closely allied to 

 C. iwcEcisa, though having much in common with C. 

 Iloegi (Bates). The head and thorax are of nearly the 

 same form, at least in the 2 , the <? differing strangely 

 in the head being narrower and less convex behind the 

 eyes, and the thorax less rectilinear on the sides. The 

 basal part of the elytra appears flattened, owing to the 

 epipleurse being vertical in conjunction with the mirror- 

 like marginal stripe, and forming a rectangular edge 

 with the disk, which edge is curiously sinuated at the 

 point, where a brilliantly polished narrow subflexuous 

 oblique vitta is emitted to the disk. The eyes are more 

 prominent than in C. ijnecisa, and the concave vertex 

 more completely covered with sharp partly concentric 

 striae. The thorax is finely striated in different direc- 

 tions, and the sulci are still more faintly impressed than 

 in C. pracisa. The elytra are finely alutaceous, beset 

 with bluish green punctures, the interstices of which are 

 minutely marbled with cupreous ; the apical margin is 

 not serrulated, and is oblique and straight for a short 

 distance near the sutural angle, which latter is- spinose. 

 Beneath blackish blue, glabrous on the sides ; femora 

 aurescent. The labrum is broadly produced, subtrun- 

 cate, unispinose in the middle, as in C. prcBcisa, but the 

 centre is strongly longitudinally convex, and the sub- 

 marginal setiferous punctures are less numerous and 

 inconspicuous. 



Cicindela punctalata, Fabr. 

 Var. Chihualnue. 



Hah. North America, Arizona (Morrison) ; Mexico, 

 Santa Clara in Chihuahua, and Chihuahua City {Wxje). 



