I 



44 Cicindeke of Massachusetts. 



Length of male U. of the female U of an inch; f 



breadth A to ^i of an inch. 



Amer. Philos. Soc. Ne 



PL XIILFig. 1. 



C. obliquata, Dejean, Spec, des Coleop. I. 72. 



This species is one of the harbingers of spring. The 

 first brood appears in April and disappears by the first of 

 June; the second appears in August and continues till 

 the end of September and even later* It inhabits dry 

 and dusty places in roads. 



3. ClClNDELA PURPUREA. 



C. head, impressed lines and margins of elytra, green, 

 the latter with a central, reclivate, oblique, abbreviated 

 band, terminal hne and intermediate dot white. 



;h f^ to H- inch, breadth ^V to ^V inch. 



Olivier, 11. 33,/^. 34. 



C marginalise Fab. ^ 



Dej. Spec, des CoUopt. I. 55. 



Sat, Trans. Amer. Philos. Sac. New Series^ I. 55. 



PI. XIIL fi£. 8. 



The C. spUndida of Hentz, Trans. Amer. Philos. 

 Soc. N. Series, III. 254. PI. IL Fig. 3, is a southern 

 species closely allied to this. It inhabits dry paths in 

 woods and fields, appears very early, often before snow is 

 gone, and again in August and September. 



4. CicindeLiA patruela. 



C. green, elytra with an interrupted humeral and 

 ' terminal lunule, and an intermediate narrow, sinuated and 

 abbreviated band, white. 



Length eleven twentieths, breadth one fourth of an inch. 



PI. III. Fig. 4. 



I, 



'I, 



A. 



f. 



