80 Mr. F. J. S. Parry's Description and Notes 



XXII. Description and Notes upon some neio and rare 

 Coleoptera. By F. J. S. Parry, F.L.S., ivith a Plate. 



[Read 3rd January, 1848.] 



Having lately received a small collection of Coleoptera from the 

 island of Ceylon, (for the which J am indebted to ray friend C. 

 Whitehouse, Esq., a resident in that beautiful island,) containing 

 several species new to our collections, I have been tempted to 

 select for description and illustration several novelties, especially 

 belonging to the family of Cet07iiidce, to which are added other 

 rare species previously described but not illustrated, and as such 

 they wdl, I trust, prove interesting to those members of the Society 

 more especially devoted to the study of foreign Coleoptera. 



Sp. 1. Cicindela {Calochroa) Assamensis, Parry, (Plate XI. fig. 1.) 



The above insect I described, from my own collection, in vol. iv. 

 p. 84 of the Society's Transactions ; it has somewhat the appear- 

 ance of the following new species I am about to describe ; it is 

 now figured for the first time. 



Sp. 2. Cicindela (Calochroa) S/iivah, n. sp.. Parry. (Plate XI. 



fig. 2.) 



Cicindela elongata, atro-picea, ^nea ; mandibulis latere externo 

 supra flavis ; thorace subquadrato, punctato rugoso, sulcis 

 duobus transversis ; elytris punctatis, macidis tribus flavis, 

 macula humerali distinct^ fascidque medid sinuata, ad suturam 

 vergenti apicali lunata flava ; corpus infra tibiis et tarsis con- 

 coloribus. 



Long. corp. lin. 10, lat. corp. lin, 3. 



This species bears a strong resemblance to Cicindela Princeps, 

 described by Mr. Vigors in the Zoological Journal, p. 413, pi. 15, 

 and now to be seen in the collection of the Zoological Society. 

 Through the kindness of Mr. Mitchell I have been enabled to 

 compare the two insects; Calochroa Princeps is of a much shorter 

 and more rotundate form, having the apex of the elytra not nearly 

 so much truncated, and a considerable difference in the form of 

 the yellow spots, vide PI. XI. fig. 2 A. Fig, 2 B represents the 

 elytron of the species above described. 



