230 FIVE NEW SPECIES OF CICINDELA, 



the length of the labrum; palpi black with greenish reflections; 

 antennae black with four basal joints purple; legs metallic-green 

 or purple. 



Head 2-5 mm. across eyes, deeply channelled and striolate 

 between eyes; occiput rugulose; front and clypeus shagreened. 

 Labrum large, convex, particularly in middle of base, 7-dentate. 

 Prothorax a little broader than long (1-6 x 1*75 mm.), rugose, 

 strongly transversely impressed anteriorly and posteriorly, 

 canaliculate in middle, anterior impression widely > shaped. 

 Elytra long, parallel (5-8 x 2-9 mm. 'i, opaque; discoidal area 

 shagreened, punctulate on basal half, puncturation obsolete on 

 apical half; sutural border with a short spine at apex; a sub- 

 sucural longitudinal row of green punctures extending backwards 

 from each side of scutellum to apical fourth, a few similar 

 punctures in a depression near each shoulder. Length 10, 

 breadth 5 8 mm. 



Hah. — Q. : Cooktown (Colls. Hacker, Lea, Sloane, French). 



This elegant species was brought from Queensland by Mr. 

 Henry Hacker, who took a number of specimens along the rail- 

 way line about three miles from Cooktown; and who presented 

 me with specimens. It is allied to C. iosceles, Hope, but 

 evidently differs by the pattern of the elytra, etc.; it is also allied 

 to C. doddi, SI., but differs by antennae swollen after fourth joint, 

 serrations of anterior margin of labrum, pattern of elytron, etc. 

 According to the accepted system of classification, it comes into 

 the genus Antennaria (Dokhtourhoff, 1883), but (apart from the 

 fact that Antennaria is invalidated by an earlier generic use of 

 Aatennarius) it appears to me that C. doddi, wdiich has not the 

 antennae swollen towards the apex, is congeneric with C. hackeri, 

 and that therefore the swollen antennas of C. iosceles and C. 

 hackeri do not, in themselves, form a character requiring these 

 species to be separated from the genus Qicindela. 



CiCINDELA DODDI, n.Sp. 



(J. Head and prothorax with upper surface bronzy; elytra 

 black with a bronzy tinge (the dark part opaque, subsericeous, 



