54 Cicindelce of Massachusetts. 



i name of Heutzii (which he undoubtedly meant for 



Mentzii) instead of the descriptive one of Jiemorrhoidalis 



which w^e choose to retain. It greatly resembles duodecim" 

 guttata^ especially in those specimens where the extremi- 

 ties of the lunules and fascia are disjoined, as they fi*e- 

 quently are. The markings are, however, broader and 

 more distinct, and it is a more slender and lively insect. 

 The solitary tooth on the edge of the lahmm is very 

 minute, and situated in the middle of a slight emargina- 

 tion ; it is nearly obsolete in the male, and quite wanting 

 in the female. This is a northern species, and bears the 

 same relation to the ^unctulata in the north, as do the 

 ahdominalis and rufiventris (if they be indeed different), 

 to the same insect in the south. Dr. Harris remarks that 

 he has never found it except between the 1st and 20th of 



Au crust 



13. CiCINDELA PUNCTULATA. 



C. obscure cupreous; beneath, varied with blue and 

 purple ; each elytron with a few white points and terminal 



tures near the suture. 



green 



of female 



i", of female |^, breadth of male :^, 



an 



r 



Olivier, TL 33, 



Fab. Syst. Eleut. L 241. 



Dejean, Cat. 1. Spec, des CoUopt. L 101. 



Amcr. Philos. Soc. N'. 



PL XL fig. 2. 



Like the hemorrhoid alis, this species has but one 

 brood in a season, which appears from the middle of July 

 to September. They frequent dry paths in fields, seldom 

 in roads. 



