NEW SPECIES OF INSECTS. 19 



Descriptions of several New Species of North American 

 Insects. By Thomas Say. 



Or D E R.— COLEOPTER A. 



Ge;22/^.— CICINDELA. Lin. Fab, &c. 



Antenna inserted into the anterior margin of the eye. 

 Palpi filiform, the intermediate and posterior ones nearly- 

 equal, penultimate joint of the latter hairy. Thorax short. 

 Elytra flat, rounded at the tip. Clypeus shorter than the 

 labrum. 



SPECIES. 



1. C.formosa, Red-cupreous, brilliant. Elytra with 

 a three-branched broad white margin. 



C formosa. American Entomology, Plate VI. 



Inhabits the sandy alluvions of the Missouri, above the 

 confluence of the river Platte. 



Front hairy. Labrum large, pale, three toothed. Ely* 

 tra with a broad white border; anterior and posterior 

 branches short, intermediate one flexuous, nearly reach- 

 ing the suture; edge of the elytra green. Body beneath 

 green or purple- blue, very hairy. Length seven-tenths, 

 breadth one-fourth of an inch. 



A large and very beautiful species, taken by Mr. T. 

 Nuttall. 



2. C. decemnotata. Green, above tinged with cu- 

 preous. Elytra margined with bright green or blucish, 

 four white spots and an intermediate refracted band. 



C. lO-notata, American Entom, Plate VI. 

 Inhabits with the preceding. 



