to the Cicindeliche fauna of Mexico. 501 



On comparing a good series of both forms this variety 

 or race presents a very distinct appearance from the more 

 northern C. jninctulata. It is on the average smaller, 

 more slender, the thorax especially narrower, and the 

 punctuation of the elytra is finer and closer ; all the 

 punctures, even to the apex, are accompanied by a dis- 

 tinct granule. The colour differs in being dark greenish 

 blue, but the small and variable white markings of the 

 elytra are the eame. 



Cicindela poUtula, Leconte, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, 1875, 159. 



This Texan species has been met with by Herr Hoge 

 at Monterey, in Nueva Leon. 



Cicindela Dugcsi, Bates. 



Biologia Centrali-Americana, Col., i., 1, p. 258. 



This species has, since the above-cited description was 

 published, been received in numbers from various locali- 

 ties, particularly in the Province Guerrero. The first 

 examples received were all of a coppery peneous hue ; most 

 of those lately arrived are greenish brassy brown, opaque, 

 with rather brighter asneous or coppery head, thorax, 

 and elytral suture, the green umbilicated foveoles of the 

 latter conspicuous against the dark colour. The white 

 markings also are more developed than is described in 

 the type-form, in which they consist of a short oblique 

 streak on the disk, with a small posterior discoidal spot ; 

 many examples baving an apical lunule and marginal 

 posterior spot. The following variety has the aspect of 

 a distinct species : — 



Var. C. calomicra. — Elytris lunula humerali apice prolongata et 

 ciuu fascia mecliana conjuncta, hac postice cum macula marginali 

 posteriori connexa, lunula apicali antice versus discum prolongata 

 ibique cum macula postero-discoidali conjuucta. Long. 8 — 9 mm. 



Hah. Cuernavaca in Morelos {Hihje) ; Chilpancingo 

 in Guerrero {H. H. Smith, Hoge). 



The white markings in their full development much 

 resemble those of the viu'. Taretana of C. liydroplioha 

 (Chevr.) In some examples the humeral lunule is widely 

 interrupted in the middle, and the a^jical lunule discon- 

 nected from the postero-discal s^iot, or the latter dis- 

 appears altogether. The abdomen and four posterior 



