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Cicindel(2 of Massachusetts. 



with a single tooth and ten suhmarginal punctures bearing 

 hairs ; mandibles long, dark green, tips and teeth black, 

 with a white spot at base ; jtaljfi yellowish white, terminal 



joints green. 



Trunk brilliant cupreous at the sides; thorax quadrate, 

 brassy green, hairy ; suhmarginal impressed lines blue ; 

 elytra dark bronze, with violet reflections ; densely punc- 

 tured, generally with a subsutural series of larger punc- 

 tures; external margins subparallel in the male, dilated a 

 little past the middle in the female ; tips finely serrate, 

 rounded in the male, subacute in the female, mucronate ; 

 marginal white line entire or but slightly interrupted near 

 the temiinal lunule ; anterior lunule originating pn the 

 humerus, continuing along the margin and abruptly curved 

 towards the scutel, terminating half way ; the intermediate 

 band directed obhquely forwards is refracted at an acute 

 ande near the middle of the elytron, and continuino- 

 nearly parallel with the suture, is incurved and somewhat 



dilated at tip, which attains the sutural line ; feet cupreous 

 red ; trochanters purple. 



Abdomen greenish blue ; tail purple. 



I have concluded that the insect here described is 

 the alhohirta of Dejean^ though it would be difficult to 

 make it out as such, from his description, because he has 

 given us no independent characteristics. On referrlno* to 

 his description of generosa, however, which he compares 

 with albohirta, the douht is greatly removed. It appears 

 to be confined to the sea beach near the open sea in 

 company with the generosa, and sometimes the hirticol- 

 Us, jyiih which last it has probably been confounded, 

 and from which it differs very hltle, except in size. It 

 seems to bear the same relation to hirticoJUs that the 

 generosa does to vulgaris. In this species, the anterior 

 lunule and intermediate band are parallel and directed 



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