NOTES ON SOME CICINDELIDAE OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS WITI I A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES. (1) VASCO M. TANNER Professor of Zoology and Entomology Brigham Young University These notes are based chiefly upon specimens which have been collected in summer field work, during the past twenty years. Many days have been spent in Utah and neighboring states collecting in-sects and cold-blooded vertebrates during these years. We have also received a number of interesting species of tiger-beetles from former students who have collected on many of the South Pacific Islands. With this collection as a basis, I am pleased to make the following additions to my list of the Cicindelids from Utah which was published in 1929 2 . At that time I reported 40 species for Utah. In this paper six species are added to this state list. I wish to thank all those who have contributed specimens to our Coleoptera collection. AMBLYCHEILA UTAHENSIS Tanner, n. sp. Form elongate-oval; head as wide as the adjoining prothorax which becomes narrower posteriorly, being 5.5 mm. in width at an-terior and 4 mm. at posterior; head and prothorax glabrous and shin-ny, except for a few punctures with black setae above the clypeal suture; labium with two blunt median teeth, margin with nine deep punctures each bearing a long golden colored seta; each elytron with three distinct carinae, the interval between the first carina and the suture is as wide as the next two intervals combined. There are a few scattered punctures with decumbent setae on the intervals; carinae end about one fifth from the apex; apex very sparsely punctured; the eleven segments of the antenna are a dull brownish in color with scattered black setae; the antenna extends back to the middle of the elytra. Legs black except the base of the femur and trochanter which are brownish, slender, and thickly covered with black setae; under side of body with a few scattered setae. Length of head and body 22 mm. Type: A perfect male specimen. (i) Contribution No. 126 from the department of Zoology and Entomology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. (2) Vasco M. Tanner. The Coleoptera of Utah — Cicindelidae. The Pan-Pacific Entomolo-gist. Vol. VI, No. 2. October, 1929. pp. 78-87. 47
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