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Var. micans Fab. Green or blue, head and thorax sometimes dark bronze, 
with the same markings as punctulata, 
Oliv. Ent. II, 33. p. 27, pl. 3, f. 37, a. b.; Fab. Syst. El. I, 241; Dej. Spec. I, 
101; Say. Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. new ser. I, 420, pl. 13, f. 11; Herbst, X. 
180. pl. 172, f. 2. .micans, Fab. Syst. El. I, 238, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 61. 
Tortuosa Dej. Brown or slightly greenish bronze, beneata green or 
blue. Head and thorax finely granulate, thorax sub-cylindrical; lab- 
rum one-toothed; eyes large prominent; elytra dispersedly, deeply 
punctured with a subsutural row of punctures, the markings are all 
very slender, the humeral lunule is terminating in a small line, form- 
ing a double hook (or often only thickened at the end), the middle 
band is very tortuose, very narrow and long, forming a kind of S, the 
apical lunule is also very narrow, and recurved anteriorly towards the 
suture. Legs moderately long and slender. This species has a very 
great range and varies in having the elytra more or less densely or 
deeply punctured, the thorax a little more or less distinctly finely gran- 
ulate and the white markings more or less slender and broken. 
This species was by some Entomologists considered as the 
C. frifasciafa Fab., but the description does not fit the species and 
figures of it given by Olivier and Herbst do not all resemble it; be- 
sides Fabricius writes Ent. Syst. I, 177, ‘‘Habitat Italia paullo minor” 
and there is certain no variety ‘‘a little smaller’ found in Italy. C. J. 
Schénherr Syn. Ins. 1805 p. 245, says ‘‘according to Illiger the small- 
er variety from Italy is without any doubt C. smwafa, Fab. Syst. El. I, 
234.—Dejean Spec. I, 85, says under C. ¢rifasciata Fab.” it is possible 
- that this species 1s not the same described by the author. As Dejean’ 
ascertained some of Fabricius’ typical species, it seems that /v/usctata 
was already lost at his time and the name should be dropped. Oc- 
curs on the seashore of La., Fla., Cal., Tex., also on the mud of rice- 
fields in Ga., La. Length 11.5—13 mm. 
Dej. Spee. I, 87. serpens Lec. Ann. Lyc.V, 173, trifasciata Klug Jahrb, I, 21. 
Lec. Ann. Lye. IV, 181. pl. 14, f. 10. ascendens Lec. Ann. Lye. V, 172; sigmoidea 
Lee. Ann. Lye. V, 172.--Chaud. Bull. Mose. 1854. I, 113. 
Dorsalis Say. Head and thorax bronze somewhat greenish, finely ru- 
gose, front bald, scutel green; elytra white, irregularly punctured, su- 
ture green, markings also green or bronze consisting of a lunulated 
branch on each elytron, terminating at the middle of the base, disc 
with two abbreviated line of which the anterior is curved outwards and 
