THE CICINDELID BEETLES OF BARKUDA 



ISI. AN D. 



By N. Annandale, D.Sc, and Cedric Dover. 



The beetles on which the records in this paper are based have 

 either been identified b}- Dr. Walther Horn, or else very carefully 

 compared with specimens named by him. The assistance he has 

 given us both before and since the war has been of the greatest 

 possible value. 



In the fauna of Barkuda the Cicindeliuae (s.s.) play an im- 

 portant part, but the Collyrinae, represented by a single species, 

 are very rare. This is not surprising, for the latter subfamily are 

 mostly inhabitants of damp equatorial forests, while many species 

 of Ciciiidela, the only Cicindeline genus represented on Barkuda, 

 love open sandy or gravelly spaces. It is in such situations that 

 five of the eight species taken on the island occur. Of the re- 

 maining three, C. aurovittata is a jungle form and C fastidiosa 

 is found on damp mud, while C. haemorrhoidalis appears to be 

 associated definitely with termites of the genus Ternics and the 

 subgenus Odontotcrmes, in the walls of the mounds of which its 

 larva burrows. 



The majority of the Cicindeliuae are most abundant on the 

 island at the end of the dry season and the beginning of the rains. 

 As the soil becomes damp such species as C. sumatrensis and 

 C. catena almost disappear. C. haemorrhoidalis , however, only 

 appears after the wet weather is well established, and apparently' 

 only lives in the adult state for a few weeks. It is usually seen 

 either sitting on the termite mounds or flying in open spaces in 

 which the termite mounds exist. Dr. Gravely has found the 

 remains of at least two adult individuals in empty burrows in a 

 mound of Termes obesus, in which the larvae a,re often abundant. 



The figures after the name of each beetle denote the page on 

 which it is described in Canon Fowler's volume on the Cicindelidae 

 and Paussidae in the " Fauna of Briti-sh India " series, while those 

 after it refer to the page number of Aimandale and Horn's 

 Annotated List of the Asiatic Beetles in the Collection of the Indian 

 Museum, Pari /, Cicindelinac (Calcutta, 1909). 



Division ALOCOSTERNALIAK. 

 Subfamily COLLYRINAE. 

 NeocoIIyris bonelli, Guer., p. 248. 

 Barkuda, 2 specimens, 3-i9viii-i9 (F. H. G.) and i.\-20 



(N.A.). 



