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1 long and dark green ; tips and teeth black, with a white spot at base ; palpi yel- 

 ' lowish wliite ; terminal joints green. Trunk brilliant cupreous at the sides. Thorax 

 ' quadrate, brassy green, hairy. Elytra densely punctured.' 



Gould, Trans. Bost. Nat. Hist. Society. 

 Abdomen greenish blue ; tail purple. 



According to Gould, it is closely allied to the hirticol/is, with which it has been con- 

 founded. 



ClCINDELA PUNCTULATA. 



C >Ior obscure cupreous. Elytra purplish green and blue ; beneath varied with blue and 

 purple. An angular cream-colored line runs along the outer and posterior margin of 

 the elytra ; the anterior and outer angle marked with cream-color. 

 According to Gould, it has but a single brood in a season, which appears about the 

 middle of July and remains till September. 

 Common in dry places, paths in fields, etc. 



Cicindela duodecimguttata ( Dejean). ( Plate xvii, fig. 3.) 



Insect bronze above. Elytra with a narrow interrupted lunule, with spots near the suture 

 replacing the termination of the lunule- Head pale and obscurely bronze ; front pu- 

 bescent with cinereous hairs ; labrum white ; mandibles dark green, with a white 

 spot at base ; palpi dark green. Trunk quadrate and rather short ; feet green ; thighs 

 cupreous. Beneath metallic greenish or blue ; sides of the thorax and breast cupreous. 

 It is a common species, and appears early. 



Gould in Trans. Bost. Nat. Hist. Society, PI. iii, fig. 3. 



Cicindela hjemorrhoidalis (Hentz). (Plate xvii, fig. 5.) 



Hentz, Trans. Am. Phil. Society, New series, III, 254; pi. ii, fig. 2. 



Harris, New-England Farmer, VII, 91. 



C. hentzii, Dejean, Spec, des Coleopteres, V. 1. 



Color bluish black above, or obscurely cupreous. Small humeral lunule entire ; posterior 

 one subentire ; intermediate one sinuate and angular, white. Marginal dot white. 

 Abdomen ferruginous. 

 Length variable, not exceeding half an inch : one of the smallest of the species. 



Head cupreous, with two lines between the eyes ; eyes large and prominent, brown, with 

 fine stria? around them ; basal joints of the antennse bronzed green, the others obscure 

 brown ; labrum dingy white, somewhat rounded before, with six marginal punctures 

 bearing hairs ; mandibles short, dark green ; second joint of labials whitish. Thorax 

 quadrate, as long as broad, obscure cupreous ; marginal impressed lines greenish blue ; 



