46 Cidndelce of Massachusetts. 



6. CiCINDELA RUGIFRONS, 



C. bright green; mandibles slender, longer than the 

 head ; elytra with a subsutural series of punctures, two 

 marginal dots and terminal lunule white. 



an 



Length "i^ to ^, breadth -i^ to ^^ of 

 Dejean, Cat. I. Spec, des CoUopt. I. 51. 

 C. deniicuJdta, Hentz, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. N. 

 Series, III. 254. PL II. Fig. 1. 

 Harris, N. E. Farmer, VII. 90. 



The whole insect is pohshed, bright green, reflecting 

 bright blue in a certain light. 



Head, front conspicuously corrugated, hairy in the male 

 only; antennce short, four basal joints bright green; ter- 

 minal ones dusky; lahrum transverse, narrow, white in 

 the male, purple in the female, with three black teeth 

 and six submarginal punctures ; mandibles very long and 

 slender, purple, with a white spot at base ; palpi green 

 in the male, greenish black in the female. 



Trunk. Thorax the size of the head, rounded, slightly 

 ruo'ose; elytra broad and «hnrt munAtr^A KoV.;^ri . ■« — i,. 



im 



elevated centres ; a minute marginal spot near the humerus 



triangular one about the middle, and a terminal 



lunule, white. 



The 

 every re 



every 



. The 

 ariety. 



the presence or absence of its spots, aie found. The 

 anterior dot is generally wantbg ; in twenty-five specimens, 

 now before me, it exists in only one. In one specimen, 

 the only marking is a trace of the terminal lunule : in 



