April, 1915.] 



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A NEW CICINDELID FROM BORN 



BY J. C. MOULTON, B.Sc, F. E. 

 (Curator of the Sarawak Museum). 



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On a recent expedition to tlie interior of Sarawak tmsuicTi 

 was found in some quantities in one locality in the upper waters of 

 the Baram Eiver. At first I thought it was a local variety of the 

 common Cicindela aiirulenta F., but closer examination shows that it 

 belongs to a different section of this extensive genus, and, as far as I 

 can make out, it appears to be undescribed. 



Cicindela beryllae sp. nov. 



Similar in size and general appearance to the common C. aurulenta F. ; 

 labrmn testaceous, narrowly margined with piceous ; mandibles basally testa- 

 ceous and black tipped ; maxillary and labial palpi dark blue-green, metallic ; 

 head and pronotum metallic green ; antennae violaceous ; genae metallic 

 pvirple^ without hairs; head finely striate, longitudinally between the eyes, 

 transversely at base ; pronotum also transversely striate, but very faintly 

 so ; pronotum sub-quadrate, slightly narrower towards 

 base, distinct setae at sides, base coppery ; scutellum 

 green, metallic ; elytra at base nearly twice as broad 

 as pronotuni, towards apex just twice as broad, obliquely 

 tapered at apex rather than gently roxmded as in auru- 

 lenta (the female has no spine at sutural angle as in 

 the Indian C. intermedia Chaud., and I can detect 

 no difference in the shape of the elytra of the two 

 sexes) ; suture coppery, upper surface dark velvety 

 greenish-blue, with the base, apex and margins finely 

 touched with metallic green ; on each shoulder a round 

 testaceous spot,* followed by another half-way between 

 base and centi-e of elytron, then two more across the 

 centre, that nearer the suture placed a little nearer the 



apex : a fifth spot close to the margin before apex : the spots are smaller than in 

 aurulenta, and are more or less round, the two middle ones occasionally joined 

 by a very fine testaceous line ; underside bright metallic green-violaceous ; 

 •vrell-developed white pubescence on the metasternum, on the anterior and 

 middle coxae and femora, hardly any on the episterna of metasternum, and 

 none on the abdomen as in aurulenta ; legs brilliantly coloured : femora 

 coppery, except apices which are rich violaceous like the tibiae and tarsi. 



Length, 16 — 17 mm. 



Allied to the Indian species C. intermedia Chaud., and C.oberthuri 

 Fleut., but at once distinguished from both by its larger size, by the 



* In Fowler's description of the Indian C. auruUnta these elytral spots are called " whitish." 

 In (mrulinta from Sarawak these sjjots are testaceous like the laliriini ; in the new species 

 described above they are the same colour. 



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