1921.] N. Annandale & C. Doveu : Fauna of Barkitda I. ^^y 



The iluseuin possesses specimens from Trivandrum, Calcutta, 

 Damukdia and Chota Nagpur in Bengal, Patan in the Koyna 

 Valley of the Satara district, Bhogpur in the United Provinces, 

 Kumdhik and Mrdio in Nepal, Siliguri, base of the Eastern Hima- 

 layas, Cacara Bay in Portuguese India, Tura in the Garo Hills of 

 Assam, Cherria Island in Lake Chilka, Cuttack in Orissa, Cochin 

 States, and China. 



This widely distributed species is the commonest of the 

 Cicindelidae found on the island, often occurring with C. tetras- 

 tacta.^ 



Cicindela aurovittata, Brul., p. 386, p. 2^. 



Barkuda, several typical examples, i7'vii'i4 (Chilka Survey)^ 

 j-ig-viii IQ (/<". H. G.) and 25-vii-4 'viii 17 (N. A.). 



The only other specimens in the collection of the Indian 

 Museum are from the Andaman Islands, the Chilka I,ake, Ganjam, 

 and the Salt Lakes near Calcutta. It is found also in Ceylon, 

 in Madras and Pondicherry, Rangoon, at the Nicobars, and the 

 Philippines. 



A jungle species rather common on Barkuda. 



Cicindela haenaorrhoidalis, Wied., p. 402, p. 24. 



Barkuda, eight examples, 2i"vii-i4 {Chilka Survey), i5-22'vii. 

 16 (A^. .4. and F. H. G.) and 25-vii-4-viiii7 {N . A.). 



Canon Fowler does not record the following localities (re- 

 presented by specimens in the collection of the Indian Museum) 

 in his volume in the "Fauna." Burkul and Angul in OrLssa, 

 Ganta Sila on Lake Chilka, Ganjam, and Rawalpindi in the 

 Punjab. 



This beetle is usuallj' found in the neighbourhood of termite 

 mounds in the walls of which its larva burrows.'^ 



Cicindela catena, Fabr., p. 426, p. 28. 



Barkuda, many specimens i7-20"vii'i4 (Chilka Survey), 

 15-22" vii- 16 (iV. A. and F. H. G.), and 25"vii-4-viii'i7 (N . A.). 



" Found from Ceylon to Mysore and Bengal, up to Darjiling" 

 (Horn). Its occurrence in the locaUties Ranchi and Cherria Island 

 in Lake Chilka has not we believe been previously noticed. This 

 tiger beetle is not uncommon on the island with C. smnatrensis 

 and C. tetrastacta. 



1 Cf. Gra\ely, Rec. Ind. Miis. \\\, p. 207 (1912) for an account of habits 

 of this and other tiger-beetles from Orissa. 



2 Cf. Horn, Dents. Etitom. Zeits. 1S99, pp. 234 and 395. 



