502 Mr. H. W. Bates's additions 



trochanters are red in all the varieties, and the species 

 clearly belongs to the rufiventris group, from all the 

 others of which it is distinguished, besides its small size, 

 by the vaulted subsemicircularly produced labrum, un- 

 armed in the J , and sharply unidentate in the $ . 



Cicindela deliciola. (PL XVL, fig. 7). 



C. dysentericce (Bates) similis sed differt, inter alia, elytris brevi- 

 oribus grossius punctatis sicut inajqualibus. Supra opaca pallide 

 viridi-aziirea vel gi-isescenti-cupreo-fusca, elytris plus niinusve 

 fusco-nebulosis, thorace transverse subrotundato, elytris luniila 

 huinerali postice minime prolongata, fascia mediana parum obliqua 

 cum vittula marginali coujuncta et pone banc macula ovata mar- 

 ginali, hinulaque apicali tenui, albis ; inter dum signaturis omnib^^s 

 (lunula apicali excepta) prope marginem conjunctis. Long. 9 mm. 

 <? ?. 



Hah. Eeal de Monte in Hidalgo (Hoge). 



Eather smaller and relatively shorter than C. Catha- 

 rince and C. dyscnterica ; thorax rather more transverse 

 and more strongly rounded, and throughout densely and 

 rather coarsely rugulose. The elytra are simply but rather 

 strongly punctate, and not, as in C. Catharince, minutely 

 granulated. The white markings differ from both species 

 especially in the median fascia being uninterrupted and 

 less oblique, by which its dilated apex lies very little 

 behind the middle of the elytra and nearer the suture ; a 

 submarginal line extends from the humeral lunule to 

 beyond the middle, but it is narrower and lies nearer the 

 margin than in C. dyscnterica. The head is sharply and 

 strongly striated, the striae covering the whole crown, 

 and the forehead has two purple vittae. The thorax is 

 strongly sculptured. The elytra are nearly conjointly 

 rounded at the apex, the apical margin not serrulated, 

 and the suture not spined. The hind trochanters are 

 dark metallic, the abdomen red, with base more or less 

 dusky. Beneath, the prosternal episternum has a few 

 long white hairs and strong punctures near the coxae, the 

 metasternal episterna are nearly glabrous, and the sides 

 of the abdomen thinly pubescent, both the episterna are 

 golden coppery, the rest of the pectus green, the hind 

 coxae golden. The labrum is white and subsemicircularly 

 rounded, the margin sinuated on each side, and the 



