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from the fact that the six species which I now describe were the 

 only representatives of the families Cicindelidce and Carahidce, 

 taken at Katow and Hall Sound, notwithstanding a diligent 

 search by experienced collectors. 



ClCINDELA MAINO, 



Viridi-cuprea subnitida subtua albo-pilosa, capite ad oculos 

 bipunctato, thorace subquadrato antice angustato postice 

 profunde transversim impresso lateribus hand rotundatis, 

 elytris oblique truncatis opacis viridi-nigris albo-mar- 

 ginatis — margine triramoso — apice sutura postice guttis 

 (pie quatuor (3 e basi juxta medium 1 infra scutellum) 

 albidis, pedibus tenuibus longissimis. 

 Long. 6 lin., lat., If lin. 

 Hah. Katow, New Guinea. 



This species has an affinity to Cicindela araneipes, Schaum, but is 

 much larger and very differently marked. The labium is short, 

 broad, truncate, armed with numerous setae, and of a yellowish 

 colour. The mandibles are yellow, with the teeth and apex black. 

 The palpi are also yellow, with the tenninal joint black, and are 

 densely clothed with white hair. The antennae are long and 

 slender, the first four joints having a bright metallic hue. The 

 head is of a dullish coppery hue, very densely and finely punctate, 

 flat above, and vertical in front, with a sharp puncture on each 

 side, close to the eyes. These last are large and prominent 

 laterally. The thorax is coppery on the sides, almost black in 

 the middle, finely shagreened, much narrower at the apex than at 

 the base, not rounded on the sides, and truncated in front and 

 behind, with the median line lightly marked, a deep transverse 

 impression at the base, and the posterior angles acute. The 

 scutellum is triangular and smooth. The elytra are a little 

 broader than the thorax, long, parallel-sided, and obliquely 

 truncate, especially in the female. The colour is a dark 



opaque green, margined with pale vellow. From the lateral 

 yellow border there are three branches, one short and very oblique 

 below the humeial angle; another aboat the middle, longer, and 



