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DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF 

 CICINDELA FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 



By Thomas G. Sloane. 



ClCINDELA BROWNI, Tl.Sp 



(J. Elongate-oval Prothorax (including pronotum), meso- 

 sternum, lateral parts of metasternum, posterior coxa?, and abdo- 

 men beset with white hairs; a few white hairs near outer basal 

 angle of cupreous area of elytra, and on sides of head beneath 

 eyes; front with two white setules near margin of eye above 

 insertion of antennae; four basal joints of antennae with white 

 hair, upper side of basal joint densely clothed with white hair. 

 Cupreous; elytra lacteous, with a cupreous discal area as in G. 

 scetigera Horn. Labrum white, with four widely placed sub- 

 marginal setae; anterior margin arcuate, notched in middle, a 

 small sharp tooth on each side of median notch just outside 

 position of inner submarginal seta. Legs more elongate and 

 slenderer than in C. ypsilon Dej.; three basal joints of anterior 

 tarsi much less dilatate. 



Q. Differs from male by larger size, elytra proportionately 

 wider, labrum tridentate. 



Length, 1L5-14; breadth, 4-52 mm. 



Hab. — Western Australia: Lake Austin, near Cue (H. W. 

 Brown). 



I have dedicated this pretty species to Mr. H. W. Brown, an 

 enthusiastic coleopterist, who found it on the margin of Lake 

 Austin on 5th and 11th April. Mr. Brown notes that its flight 

 is much slower than that of the coastal species. It is allied to 

 C. scetigera (with which I have been unable to compare it), but 

 differs by front and clypeus naked, except for the two or three 

 white setules above the insertion of the antennae; the pattern of 

 the elytra is similar to that of C. scetigera, but the spatulate 

 process, which extends backwards on each elytron from the basal 



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