216 Mr. H. W. Bates' supplement to the 



Cicindela novitia. 



C. literata longior et paullo gracilior, supra subolivaceo- 

 nigra thoracis limbo interdum obscure cupreo, subtus 

 femoribusque viridi-auratis nitidis trochanteribus runs ; 

 thorace fere cylindrico, elytris opacis tenuiter granulatis 

 baud perspicue punctatis ; signaturis sicut in C. amur- 

 ensi sed latioribus, scilicet lunula humerali, ramo 

 inferiori elongato apice retrorsum (versus basin) hamato- 

 clavato, fascia mediana maxime tortuosa, vitta mediana 

 marginali, lunulaque apicali cujus ramo superiori valde 

 elongata subrecte discum versus extenso. Long. 9£ — 10£ 

 mm., c? , ? . 



Hakodate ; Niigata. 



Cicindela Sumatrensis, Herbst ; Dejean, Sp. Gen. i., 

 p. 88. Local var. Niponensis. 



C. Sumatrensis is distributed, with very little local 

 variation, over the whole Indo-Malayan region — Su- 

 matra, Java, Bali, Ceylon, India, the Philippines, &c. 

 In Japan it reappears in quite a northern locality, on 

 the sea-shore at Niigata, in North-Western Nipon. 

 Compared with the largest Indian specimens I find no 

 difference, except the broader and more robust form 

 (the thorax notably broader), the more obtuse angle 

 described by the median fascia, from which it results 

 that the inner portion of the fascia runs more obliquely 

 towards the suture, and the existence of a minute 

 granule on the anterior edge of each elytral puncture. 

 The females measure 14£ mm., the largest Indian 

 females I have seen 12£ (5| lines) : Dejean gives 5 — 5|- 

 lines as the length of the species as known to him. 

 The remarkable dilatation of the female elytra at one- 

 third the length, and form of the labrum strongly uni- 

 dentate in the middle, with the front edge straight and 

 slightly oblique from the tooth to the anterior angles, 

 are the same in both forms. 



CAEABID,E. 



Omophron cequalis, Morawitz, Beitr. z. Kaferf. der Ins. 

 Jesso, p. 6 ; Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, 

 p. 229. 



Mr. Lewis has met with this species under two rather 

 distinct forms : in one, from Sapporo, near which place 



