142 Journal New York. Ent. Soc, [Vol ii. 



LOCAL ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Members of tiie New York Entomological Society and all others, are solicited 

 to contribiile to this column, their rare captures, local lists and other items of 

 interest relating to the insect fauna of New York city and vicinity. 



EASTERN VARIETIES OF CICINDELA 

 SCUTELLARIS. 



Frank Holmes Johnson. 



C. nii^i/ro/is and C /iiodcsta, and with them the immaculate 

 varieties, C. iiuicolor and C. /lign'or, occur on Long Island to the 

 south of Woodiiaven. C. iiiiicolor is found abundantly in Florida, 

 while C. rugifrons is not reported so far south, but this is the first 

 recorded instance of the former variety occuring in the Middle 

 States. I have taken ten of C. unicolor to about two hundred of 

 C. rugifrons, and three of C. nigrior to about ninety of C. modesta. 

 Almost every gradation occurs in the color and markings of the 

 Long Island specimens. The most liighly marked specimens of 

 C. rugifrons and C. niodcsta have on the margin a post-humeral 

 dot, a medial triangular spot and an apical lunule. As we approach 

 C. unicolor and C. nigrior the humeral dot disappears, the medial 

 becomes small, orbicular or crescent-shaped, and the apical lunule 

 becomes two separate spots (the markings now resemble those of 

 C. sexguttata). The medial and apical dots as the they grow 

 smaller become separated from the margin, and finally disappear? 

 first the medial, and then the apical dots. The ground color in 

 C. rugifrons varies from blue to green, in one of my specimens it is 

 brassy-green ; two specimens exhibit a color which is neither black 

 nor green, but may be described as intermediate between the 

 green of C. rugifrons, the black of C. modesta, and the purple 

 brown of C. Lciontii. C. inodcsta seems to vary less in markings 

 and color than C. rugifrons. 



May 19th, 1894, at Curtis Bay, Md. (near Baltimore), I found 

 a cT of C. modestiX and a 9 of C. rugifrons in coitu. Nothing could 

 better demonstrate the intimate relations of the two varieties. 



The greater variation occurs in the fall brood, which, on Long 

 Island, appears before September first, and lasts to beyond the 

 middle of the month. The spring brood is less numerous; it 



