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STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ENTOMOLOGY. 



No. XIV. New Species of Geodephagous Coleoptera from 

 Tropical Australia. 



CiciNDELiD.E (3), and Carabid^ (5) [Platysmatini, Morioni, 

 Perigonini, Masoreini, and Physocrotaphini]. 



By Thumas G. Sloane. 



cicindelidj:. 

 Cicindela frenx'HI, n.sp. 



2. Cupreous, elytra with wide lacteous margin; cupreous part 

 of elytra strongly punctate; prothorax narroAv, subcylindrical; 

 elytra oval, bimucronate at apex of suture. 



Upper surface of head, prothorax and internal part of elytra of 

 a metallic copper-colour, elytra with a wide milky-white margin 

 giving off an internal process about middle of length on each 

 elytron; under surface metallic, cupreous, finely rugulose-punctate 

 and clothed with white hairs on lateral parts, glabrous and of a 

 coppery-green colour in middle, two apical segments of abdomen 

 brownish; legs and four basal joints of antenna? metallic, 

 coppery; tarsi and lower side of tibia? green; labrum lacteous, with 

 extreme edge infuscate; mandibles lacteous, with apex black 

 (base of dark apical part with cupreous reflections); labial 

 palpi pallid, maxillary lurid, apical joint of all dark green; seven 

 apical joints of antenna- lurid. Head wider than prothorax, 

 2-5 mm. across eyes. Prothorax a little broader than long 

 (1*6 X 1-8 mm.), strongly rugose (the rugosity rough and intri- 

 cate), impressed transversely anteriorly and posteriorly, and 

 longitudinally in middle — the disc thus divided into two 

 convex areas; anterior margin roundly produced in middle, not 

 fringed with hairs ; upper surface glabrous. Elytra oval 

 {5-5 X 3-1 mm.), cupreous area strongly and closely punctate, 

 — the punctures stronger on basal than on apical area — the white 



