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' long and dark green ; tips and teeth black, with a white spot at base ; palpi yel- 

 < lowish white ; terminal joints green. Trunk brilliant cupreous at the sides. Thorax 

 ' quadrate, brassy green, hairy. Elytra densely punctured.' 



GocLD, Trans. Bost. Nat. Hist. Society. 

 Abdomen greenish blue ; tail purple. 



According to Gould, it is closely allied to the hirticollisy with which it has been con- 

 founded. 



CiCINDELA PUNCT0LATA. 



Color obscure cupreous. Elytra purplish green and blue ; beneath varied with blue and 

 purple. An angular cream-colored line runs along the outer and posterior margin of 

 the elytra ; the anterior and outer angle marked with cream-color. 

 According to Gould, it has but a single brood in a season, which appears about the 

 middle of July and remains till September. 

 Common in dry places, paths in fields, etc. 



CiCINDELA DuoDEciMGUTTATA ( Dcjcan). ( Plate xvii, fig. 3.) 



Insect bronze above. Elytra with a narrow interrupted lunule, with spots near the suture 

 replacing the termination of the lunule. Head pale and obscurely bronze ; front pu- 

 bescent with cinereous hairs ; labrum white ; mandibles dark green, with a white 

 spot at base ; palpi dark green. Trunk quadrate and rather short ; feet green ; thighs 

 cupreous. Beneath metallic greenish or blue ; sides of the thorax and breast cupreous. 

 It is a common species, and appears early. 



GoDLD in Trans. Bost. Nat. Hist. Society, Fl. iii, fig. 8. 



CiCINDELA HiEMORRHOiDALis ( Hcntz). ( Plate xvii, fig. 5.) 



Hestz, Trans. Am. Phil. Society, New series, III, 254^ pi. ii, fig. 2. 



HAKRti, New-England Farmer, VII, M. 



C. hentzii, De^eah, Spec, des Colfeopteres, V. 1- 



Color bluish black above, or obscurely cupreous. Small humeral lunule entire ; posterior 

 one subentire ; intermediate one sinuate and angular, white. Marginal dot white. 

 Abdomen ferruginous. 

 Length variable, not exceeding half an inch : one of the smallest of the species. 



Head cupreous, with two lines between the eyes ; eyes large and prominent, brown, \Hth 

 fine striae arouad them ; basal joints of the antennae bronzed green, the others obscure 

 brown ; labrum dingy white, somewhat rounded before, with six marginal punctures 

 bearing hairs ; mandibles short, dark green ; second joint of labials whitish. Thorai 

 quadrate, as long as broad, obscure cupreous j marginal impressed lines greenish blue ; 



