dcindelce of Massachusetts^ 49 



• Two or three varieties may be designated. Var. a. 

 Elytra purplish or bronzed, and all the markings obsolete, 

 except the terminal lunule. Var. ^. Elytra greenish 

 brassy, immaculate. 



The C. blanda of Dejean^ seems to be a variety with a 

 predominance of white. 



fit Lahrum with one tooth ; thoraoc nearly cylindricaly 

 sometimes elongated. 



9. CiCINDELA HIRTICOLLIS. 



C. obscure cupreous, beneath bluish green, tmnk each 



side brilliant cupreous, hairy ; elytra with two lunules, 



intermediate refracted band, and outer margin, white. 



Length of male |^f , of female f J, breadth -i^ to -i^j of an 

 inch . 



Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. I. 20. Trans. Amer. 

 Philos. Soc. N. Series, I. 411. PI. XIII. Fig. 2. 

 C. repanda, Dej. Spec. des. CoUopt. I. 74. 

 Generally found in roads, sometimes on the sea beach. 



10. CiCINDELA ALBOHIRTA. 



C. head and thorax brassy green, hu-sute with erect, 

 white hairs ; sides brilliant cupreous ; elytra subviolaceous 

 bronzed ; lateral margin, humeral and dentated terminal 

 lunvile and intermediate recurved band, wiiite. 



Length of male ^^, of female |f , breadth of male -/o-, of 

 female l^ of an inch. 



Plate IIL Fig. 1. 



Dejean, Spec, des CoUopt. 11. 425. 



green 



covered with long, hoary hairs, except behind the eyes; 

 antenna, basal joints bright green in the male, brassy 

 green in the female ; terminal joints dusky ; lahr\im white, 



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