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FIVE NEW SPECIES OF CICINDELA FROM 

 TROPICAL AUSTRALIA. 



By Thomas G. Sloane. 



ClCINDELA HACKERI, 



n.sp. 



Elongate. Antennae with joints 5-11 swollen. Head and 

 prothorax of a greenish -bronze, front and clypeus greenish : 

 elytra black, opaque; a white stripe on each elytron extending 



from shoulder nearly to apical 

 sutural angle — inner margin of 

 this white stripe produced at 

 about basal fourth, middle, and 

 apical fourth, middle process 

 about as wide as the stripe itself 

 and extending inwards to about 

 the sutural third of the width 

 / KIS \ ^^ elytron, anterior and pos- 



/ ^^S \ terior processes merely forming 



I ^m^^k V sinuosities in the outer margin 



of the black discoidal area; mar- 

 gin black, very narrow on apical 

 curve ; under surface bright 

 metallic-blue, prosternum and 

 mesosternum with white hairs 

 above anterior and middle coxj«, 

 a stripe of white hair extending 

 from anterior margin of met- 

 episterna obliquely backwards 

 on to posterior coxse; all the coxse with white hair, and the femora 

 with scattered white setae; labrura white with anterior margin 

 infuscate, the anterior infuscation reaching backwards for half 



