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amination I am convinced that it must be considered as distinct. It is closely 
allied to C. blanda, but is less elongated in its form, and the elytra, although 
cylindrical, are not so convex. ‘The labrum is short, and, as in C. blanda, the 
teeth of the anterior edge are obsolete; the palpi are pale, with the tips brassy 
green. ‘The thorax is very finely, not densely wrinkled; the sides are more 
rounded than in C. blanda, although as in that species, they are-less convex in 
the female. The elytra are of a brilliant copper-color, more coarsely and dense- 
ly punctured than in C. blanda. The markings are as in C. blanda, but very 
broad, and the upper part of the medial fascia is less tortuous. The elytra of 
the female is strongly excised on the outer edge near the tip, precisely 
as in C. blanda. The body beneath is greenish bronze, covered with fine dense 
white hair; the posterior trochanters are testaceous. 
The insect that I have considered as C. blanda var. y must also be separated 
as a distinct species under the name. 
C. tarsalis, elongata, vix cylindrica, fusco-picea opaca, thorace lateribus 
rotundatis, utrinque leviter constricto, breviter albo pubescente, elytris ochreis, 
sutura antice lineolisque obliquis fuscis, apice oblique attenuatis serrulatis ; 
labro transverso, edentato ; tibiis testaceis trochantibus posticis flavis, tarsis pos- 
ticis longissimis. Long. :48. | 
One male, Canootche river, Georgia. The diagnosis enables this species to 
be distinguished from the preceding and from C. blanda. The color is dull, 
without any metallic gloss. The elytra are less cylindrical and less convex, and 
the markings are so broad that the interstices between them are reduced to nar- 
row fuscous lines; the punctures of the dark parts of the elytra are large and 
dense, but not deep. The tibize are pale, with the tip darker; the posterior tarsi 
are more than one-fourth longer than in C. blanda. The body beneath is black, 
covered with short, dense white hair. 
2. Cicindela cumatilis Lec. Ann. Lyc. 5, 173. 
A variety of this beautiful species was found with the spots much larger than 
in the type, so that the medial band attains the margin, and is only interrupted 
on the disc: the spot anterior to the apical lunule is also enlarged, and there is 
a very minute white humeral dot. 
3. Cicindela n.sp. 
A very small species, probably allied to C. germanica, indicated only by a 
single elytron. The markings are so different from any other species within 
our territory, that a description of even this fragment will enable the species to 
be easily recognized. 
The color is brownish black, without metallic lustre ; the surface is sericeous 
with fine granulations; the punctures are distant, large and deep; the humeral 
lunule is very narrow; the oblique posterior part is curved; the margin is 
white, interrupted only at the apical lunule; the anterior band perpendicular, 
and united to the margin externally, descending slightly at its inner part, and 
terminating in a small spot near the suture; the margin along the apical lunule 
is finely serrate, and obliquely attenuated almost to the tip, which is very 
suddenly rounded, and almost truncate; the suture is armed witha very mi- 
ute spine. 
4. Lachnophorus elegantulus Man. Bull. Mosc. 1843, p. 43: ibid 
1846, p. 7. 
Tachypus mediosignatus Menétries, Bull. Soc. Petrop. 1843. This pretty 
little insect seems to have a very extensive distribution. I found it in abun- 
dance on the banks of the Gila near the Pimas villages. Dr. Woodhouse 
took it on the Creek Boundary, and Mr. Pease brought a specimen from 
Mexico. 
5. Chlenius vafer, nigro piceus, capite cyaneo, thorace cyanescente, 
latitudine breviore, antrorsum angustato et lateribus rotundato, subtiliter obso- — 
Jete punctato, elytris thorace latioribus dense punctulatis, et pubescentibus, 
atts fere ad apicem fortiter punctatisy antennarum basi pedibusque ferrugineis. 
ong. *40. 
