234 Mr. H. W. Bates on the Oeodephagous 



COLEOPTERA GeODEPHAGA, 



Family Cicindelidae. 



Cicindela tuherculata, Fab. Sjst. Entom. p. 225. 

 Northern and Southern Islands. Auckland ; Christchiu'ch. 



Cicindela latecincla^ Wliite, Voy. Ereb. & Terr., Ins. p. 1, 

 t. i. f. 1. 



Southern Island. Canterbury. 



This form is generally considered a variety of" G. tuhercidata. 

 The differences, however, are considerable ; for besides the 

 width of the lateral white stripe, which reaches throughout 

 the lateral rim of the elytra, it is a broader insect, with the 

 elyti-al surface more uniform in colour and, particularly, the 

 rows of punctures much less marked and with smaller green 

 spots. It must rest with local entomologists to decide, by 

 observing the forms in situ, whether they are distinct or not. 



Cicindela Wahejleldi, n. sp. 



C. tuberculatce similis, at multo minor et angustior ; fascia alba 

 mediana elytrorum postice oblique prolongata. Long. 4 lin. c? 5 . 



Very similar to C. tuhercidata in sculpture, colours, and 

 markings, but certainly distinct. It is always much smaller 

 and narrower ; and although the lateral white stripe of the 

 elytra is very similar in form and direction, the median fascia 

 is prolonged as a curved sti-eak some distance down the disk 

 of the elytron. There is also a structural difference in the 

 apex of the elytra, which may better be expressed by a tabular 

 formula : — 



Cicindela tuhercidata. Cicindela Wakejieldi. 



El}i;rorum apicibus Eh'ti-orum apicibus 



cJ conj unctim prolongatis, sutura J conjunctim late rotundatis, 



longe spinosa, sutura breviter spinosa, 



5 conjunctim rotimdatis, sutura $ singulatim abrupte rotundatis 



acute spinosa. (vel ad sutui'am foi-titer con- 



i'unctim emarginatis), sutui'a 

 reviter spinosa. 



Very local, near Chrjstchurch. Sent in some numbers by 

 C. M. Wakefield, Esq., but first discovered by Mr. Fereday, 

 of Christchurch. 



Cicindela Douei, Chenu; Gudr. Mag. de Zool. 1840, pi. xlv. 



The figm'e represents an elongate species evidently of the 

 tuberculata group, a little shorter than C. tuherculata (11 

 millims. =5 lines). It is distinguished at once by the apical 



