6 CICINDELIDjE. CICINDELA. 



terminated by a sharp tooth; antennae fuscous with the four joints 

 at the base coppery. Thorax rather wider than the head, scarcely 

 narrowed behind; scutellum small, fuscous black. Elytra ob- 

 long, about double the width of the thorax, deeply and irregu- 

 larly foveated near the suture and rugose-punctate throughout, 

 having a small white spot on the shoulders, an oblique fascia 

 rather behind the middle, and a roundish spot just before the 

 apex, none of them, except the humeral one, touching the mar- 

 gin : underside of the legs and body clothed with white pile and 

 their surface greenish blue, sides of the thorax and breast cop- 

 pery. Length 7 8 lines. 



Abundant on sandy heaths; Cobham; Ripley; Weybridge; 

 Christchurch ; Manton Common near Brigg. 



2. C. hybrida: fusco-subanea, elytris lunuld humerali apicalique 

 fascidque media sinuatd albreviatd albis. 



Linn. F. S. 747. Fab. S. El. 1. 234. Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 3. 

 Dej. Spec. 1. 64 ; Icon. 1. 19. pi. 2. Steph. Manual, p. 5. 

 Erichson, Kafer, 2. 

 C. aprica, Steph. Mand. 1. 8. 

 C. riparia, Steph. Mand. 1. 9. pi. 1. 



C. sylvicola, Curtis, Ent. pi. 1 . Steph. Mand. 1 . 10, et Manual, 

 p. 5. 



Brownish (or greenish) bronze with purplish tints, head and 

 thorax coppery, with the elytra green in less frequent individuals, 

 but more generally fuscous. Head with an oblong green fovea 

 on each side in front, very finely punctured and striated ; upper 

 lip yellowish white, with a minute tooth in the middle ; antenna 

 fuscous, with the four joints at the base green or coppery. 

 Thorax quadrate, scarcely narrowed behind, sides with long white 

 pile, the transverse impressions on the anterior and posterior 

 margins brilliant coppery red, bordered by a fine green line ; 

 scutellum large and much pointed. Elytra more coarsely gra- 

 nulated all over than in campestris, each with three white spots 

 disposed thus, one lunular spot on the shoulder sometimes inter- 

 rupted, one central band sinuated behind and denticulated in 

 front not touching the outer margin and terminating in a roundish 

 spot before reaching the suture, and a third on the margin before 

 the apex and reaching to the tip of the suture; body beneath 

 purplish green, with the breast and sides of the thorax coppery 

 red ; legs purplish copper, very pubescent, with the joints and 

 tarsi purplish green. Length 6 7 lines. 



The insect described by Mr. Curtis as sylvicola is a green ex- 

 ample of hybrida. The original representative of sylvicola, Meg., 

 is by most entomologists considered a distinct species and is a 



