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ART. IV.— ON THE CICINDEL^ OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

 Bv Augustus A. Gould, M. D. Read March 19, 1834. 



It is my purpose, in presenting this paper, to commu- 

 nicate such facts as I have collected in regard to the 



on. Though It professes 



ICINDEL^ 



to embrace only those of Massachusetts^ yet, so for as I 

 can learn, no other species have been found in New Eng- 

 land, nor indeed have any others of the family Cicinde- 

 LiADiE- I am aware that I have no new species to add 

 to those already described by Fabricius, Olivier, Dejean, 

 Say, Hentz, and Harris. Count Dejean, in his Species 

 des CoUojpieres^ has in some instances created confusion 

 and uncertainty by giving new names to species described 

 by American entomologists. In many instances, also, 

 important characteristics have been omitted, and the de- 

 scriptions we now have, have been left not a little vague 

 and imperfect, for want of a sufficient number of specimens, 

 or specimens of both sexes, from which to describe. The 

 work of Count Dejean being rare in this country, and 

 accessible to but few, I have translated his descriptions of 

 new species, and have endeavored to supply those por- 

 tions which to us are defective, because they consist of 

 comparisons with other, foreign species, which the Ameri- 

 can entomologist may perhaps never see. 



For many of the facts here embodied, I am mdebted to 

 Dr. T. W. Harris, who has kindly furnished me with his 



MbS, with nermisdon in matp nt;p nf iht^m 



He has 



groups 



tmguished by very obvious, and indeed strikin 

 These divisions I have adopted. The first 



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