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3000-3500 ft. It has also been taken at Coorg and Raugamati. 

 The varietj- lineijrons Chaud. is represented in onr collection from 

 above Tura, 2500 ft.( Kemp, I5"vii"i7, " jungle path"). 



Cicindela albina, Wiecl. On banks of River vSohan at Rawal- 

 pindi, Punjab, and Lohardaga, Ranchi Dist,, Chota Nagpur. -At 

 Balighai near Puri on the Orissa Coast Er. Annandale found that 

 it occurred only on sand dunes, not on the seashore. 



Cicindela coptilaia, Schm.-Goeb. Fowler gives the distribution 

 as Calcutta and Karachi, but remarks that the former is rather 

 doubtful Schmidt-Goebel described it from " Cossipore near 

 Calcutta, " but this is undoubtedh' an error for Cossipore is on the 

 banks of the River Hughli, and fully ninety miles away from the 

 sea; there is soft mud on the fore-shore, and no sand at all. 

 The localitA^ has no resemblance whatever to Karachi. Moreover, 

 C. copulata has never again been recorded from near Calcutta, 

 while il has often turned up at Karachi. It is thus safe to assume 

 that it does not occur in the former locality. The species is gener- 

 ally found in open sandy places. Fleutiaux (1917) records what 

 he considered this species from Annam, but in a later paper (1919) 

 he showed that it was really C. punctatissima . Schaum. 



Cicindela quadrilineata, Fabr. In recording this form and 

 C. biramosa Fabr., from Chandipore on the Orissa sea-coast Dr. 

 Gravely (1919, p. 398) remarks : " Cicindela quadrilineata, Fabricius 

 is sometimes to be found where the ground is muddy. In 1919 it 

 was comparatively abundant on muddy sand at the mouth of the 

 Burhabalang River. Both species are common seashore insects, 

 living near high-tide mark, but I am not aware that the}' have 

 been found so closely associated before. In Annandale and Horn's 

 Annotated List of Indian Museum Cicindelinae (Calcutta, 1909), 

 C. biramosa is recorded from various places from N. Kanara on the 

 ^[alabar coast to Java, and C. quadrilineata from Burma and Bengal 

 to south of iladras; and the known range of the latter species is 

 extended in the ' Fauna of British India' to Sind and Baluchistan. 

 More recent observations both by Dr. Annandale and myself sug- 

 gest that C. biramosa is the common seashore species of the east 

 and southwest coasts of the Indian Peninsula, and that C. quadri- 

 lineata holds this position on the northern parts of the west coast. 

 Mr. Kemp found both on the coast of Portuguese India." In a 

 fortnight's visit to Chandipore in the latter half of September, 1920, 

 we did not see either of these species, but C. limosa, Saund., was 

 occasionally observed in the burrows of the crab, Ocypoda 

 macrocera, Milne-Edwards, a brilliant red species of considerable 

 size, very common on the beach. The beetle probably only goes 

 into the burrow for shelter and the case must not be taken as one 

 of commensalism. A damaged example of limosa has been taken 

 by Gravely from the nest of a gregarious spider (Stegodyphtis) at 

 Durgapur, Salt I^akes, near Calcutta. The variety renei, Horn, of 

 C. quadrilineala has been taken by Kemp at Pamben in the Gulf 

 of Manaar (24'iit3.) 



