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Cicindela tascosaensis new species——Type male, and allotype 
female, from Tascosa, Texas, May, 1917. Davis collection. 
Black or nearly black above with the following markings on 
the elytra straw-colored. Humeral lunule, separated from mar- 
ginal: line; marginal line extending along the middle part of the 
elytra, but not connected with the subapical dot, which is trans- 
verse ; the middle band bent slightly downward but not connected 
with the discal dot. The antennze, dorsum of the head, and 
pronotum, are black, or nearly so; the jaws are bronzed with the 
tips black. The elytra are feebly granulose, and in one of the 
paratypes, which is slightly paler in color probably owing to im- 
maturity, they are punctured. The posterior margins of the 
elytra are conspicuously serrulate in both sexes; the sutural angle 
is spinate, and the tip transversely truncate in the female, ob- 
liquely so in the male. Beneath black, with white hairs on the 
palpi; several long hairs on the under side of the head, more pro- 
fusely haired on the prosternum and along the sides of the ab- 
domen, which has the last two (sometimes three) segments red- 
dish. The coxze and legs also bear white hairs. 
Length of male type 10.5 mm.; of female allotype 10 mm. 
This insect has somewhat the dorsal coloring of Cicindela klugi 
Dejean, from Mexico, but the markings are much finer than in 
that species, and the eyes are much more protruding, being about 
as prominent as in our rufiventris or abdominalis from New 
Jersey and Virginia. Mr. Leng has pointed out that the most 
characteristic feature of the color pattern is the transverse sub- 
apical spot. 
Paratypes, collected at the same place and time, have been 
placed in the collections of Mr. Harris and Mr. Leng. In send- 
ing me the lot of insects which included the Cicindela here de- 
scribed Miss McGill stated that she had found most of them on 
the “sand rocks.” 
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