from the Island of St. Vincent. 93 



angustior, maculis vix similibus pallidioribus, elytris rugosius tu- 

 berculatis ad apicem magis fortiter serratis singulatim rotundatis 

 et spinula suturali media majore terminatis, sutura antice magis 

 elevata (costa etiam circa scutellum contiauata), capite protho- 

 race pedibusque Isetius cuprescentibus, oculis intus paulo magis 

 augulatim emarginatis, labro breviore antice magis truncato, in 

 medio baud sinuato et denticulo multo minore instructo, mandi- 

 bulis vix minoribus ad basin externam brevius albidis, antennis 

 paulo gracilioribus articulo basilari minore, femoribus gracilioribus, 

 corpore subtus fere impunctato, et cset. 



A single example of this Cicindela, which I forwarded to 

 Berlin three years ago^ was regarded by my friend Dr. Schaum 

 as a variety of the widely distributed C. littoralis ; and, indeed, 

 did its only differences from that insect consist in size, colour, 

 and the slightly altered proportions of its paler patches, I should 

 certainly have been of the same opinion myself. But the sub- 

 sequent comparison of a larger number of examples with types 

 of the C. littoralis from Northern Africa has brought to light 

 so many constant, and even structural distinctions (however 

 small) that I cannot but receive them, in conjunction with those 

 less important ones of external contour, as of true specific signi- 

 fication. Thus it is not merely smaller than the C. littoralis, 

 more brightly metallic in parts, and with the spots paler and 

 rather differently proportioned, but its elytra are more coarsely 

 granulcd, much more evidently serrated at their apex, and sepa- 

 rately rounded-off, causing the spiniform termination of the 

 suture to be larger. The suture also is more raised, particularly 

 in front, where the elevation is continued round the hindei' portion 

 of the scutellum ; its eyes are rather more angularly emarginated 

 internally; its antennae and femora are somewhat slenderer (the 

 former having their basal joint, especially, less robust) ; its man- 

 dibles are not quite so elongate, and with the white stripe at 

 their outer base shorter (extending only to the commencement 

 of the first tooth, instead of to the third) ; its body beneath is 

 almost impunctate ; and its upper lip is very differently con- 

 structed, being not only much shorter, but more truncated in front, 

 unsinuated in the middle, and with a much smaller central tooth. 



I possess two specimens of this insect, which were captured in 

 St. Vincent by John Gray, Esq., and the Rev. Hamlet Clark, 

 during December 1856, and have examined others in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Fry. I am informed by Mr. Clark that the species 

 was very abundant in a salt locality, or marsh, close to Porto 

 Grande. 



2. Cicindela vicina, Dej. 

 Cicindela vicina, Dej., Spec. Gen. des Col. v. 244 (1831). 



The present Cicindela seems to agree sufficiently well with the 



