(September, 
to | 
(or) 
lateral margins than in solidus, with scarcely an indication of the posterior 
the punctuation of the surface is much as in brunnicornis, perhaps a 
angles : 
n the front and at the sides. 
little closer than in that species, and very close i 
The elytra are nearly half as long again as the thorax, with the sides more parallel 
and the apical margin more truncate than in solidus; their punctuation is 
much as in brunnicornis, only rather more closely packed, so as to be slightly 
of them is marked with a more or less sharply 
an oblong streak to a broad 
but never reaching either 
confluent in places, and each 
defined red stain on the disc, varying in size from 
blotch occupying more than half of each elytron, 
base, side margin, suture, or apex. s qi 
The legs are not so stout as, but longer than, in solidus, the tarsi especially being 
longer and not so dilated, and the apical joint unusually slender and elongate, 
almost equaling the rest in length, with the claw itself very minute. The an- — 
terior pair are bright rufo-testaceous, with slightly dusky femora, and their 
tibia are narrower than in solidus, and much less strongly but more sharply 
serrate, the individual denticulations gradually increasing from the base towards 
the apex, where they are stronger than the corresponding teeth in brunnicornis : 
the fourth denticulation from the bottom is, perhaps, slightly the most de- 
veloped. The intermediate and posterior pairs are wider and darker than the , 
anterior, having their femora and the outer margins of their tibie pitchy, the 
latter being also set with short dark sete. All the tarsi are more or less 
pitchy, being especially dark at the apex. 
Beneath, the insect is black, with pitchy testaceous trochanters. 
10, Lower Park Fields, Putney, S.W. 
9th August, 1871. 
NOTES ON SOME CHILIAN CICINDEL#, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A 
NEW SPECIES. 
BY EDWYN C. REED. 
Upon taking charge of the Entomological Department of the Na-- 
tional Museum of Chile, in 1869, I found the genus Cicindela repre-_ 
sented by one species only, the C. chilensis of Aud. and Brullé. This 
species is not uncommon in the environs of Santiago, running about on 
the sandy banks of the river Mapocho. ‘ 
During the summer of 1869—70, a Chilian entomologist, Senor 
Herreros, took a few specimens of C. peruviana, Lap., at Carrizal_ 
Bajo. This species is said by Gay, in his Historia Fisica de Chile, Zool., 
iv, p. 117, to be “ very common in Chile, principally in the Cordilleras’ 
of Coquimbo, Copiapo, and Santiago ;” this, however, with many other 
statements by the same author, must be taken cum grano salis. 
In January of the present year, Captain F. Vidal Gormaz, of the 
Chilian navy, while exploring a river in South Chile, captured another 
species of Cicindela, apparently near C. patagonica, Brullé, but of which 
I can find no description, and accordingly now characterize :— 
