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FAMILY I. CICJNPELIDiE. 



Fig. 8. Fig. 9. 



(After Leng.) 



When the markings are in bands, as in Fig. 8: (0. repancla.) 



1 = humeral lunule. 



2 — marginal line. 



3 = middle band. 



4 = apical lunule. 

 When the markings are in dots as in Fig. 9 : 



5 (See fig. 23) = basal dot, 



6 = humeral dot. 



7 = posthumeral dot. 



8 • : marginal dot, 



9 = supplementary dot, 



10 = discal dot, 



11 = anteapical dot. 



12 = apical dot. 



When these markings are of the style shown in figure (C. hirti- 

 colis) they are said to be complete; when lacking in part or broken 

 up into dots, they are called incomplete. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OE CICINDELA. 



a. Under side of abdomen metallic blue or green. 



/>. Thorax more or less flattened, its sides margined. 



c. Abdomen not hairy; front of head flat; elytra flattened and with 

 a white marginal dot. 2. unipunctata. 



go. Abdomen sparsely hairy; front concave; elytra with a vague de- 

 pression on basal third, dull brown or black with humeral, 

 posthumeral and anteapical dots and narrow middle band. 



LONGILABRIS. 



hi). Thorax convex, not margined; elytra convex. 



a. Pubescence beneath either erect or lacking; outer margin of ely- 

 tra in female not angulate. 

 e. Thorax much narrowed behind; markings incomplete, reduced 

 to dots or spots ; colors usually bright, 

 f. Elytra without well defined median band. 

 g. Thorax quadrate; elytra green or purple; markings dis- 

 tinct. 



h. Elytra smooth or nearly so; apical lunule and one or 

 more marginal spots present ; color purplish bronze. 



3. LECONTEI. 



hh. Elytra distinctly punctured; markings reduced to small 



Smooth. 4. SEXGUTTATA. 



gg Thorax subcylindrical ; elytra black or dark bronze; mark- 

 ings very indistinct. 13. punctulata. 

 ff. Elytra with well defined median band. 



i. Color either bright or bluish-green ; front of head smooth. 



5. patruela. 



