266 { April, 
Buckley in Equador, offers the peculiarity of ungrooved tarsi in all 
legs and in both sexes, which renders its introduction into that genus 
inadmissible. But it offers a further peculiarity, apparently of more 
importance, namely, densely pubescent soles to all five joints of the 
anterior tarsi of the 3, the joints being, moreover, very slightly dilated. 
This last peculiarity it shares with the otherwise somewhat anomalous_ 
Odontocheila egregia and Degandei. I think it also very likely that Cie. 
eupriventris, Reiche, Cic. Devillei, Lucas, and Cie. speculifera, Brullé, 
agree with them in this respect. I propose, therefore, to institute a 
genus founded on the last-named point of structure, and to treat the 
suleated tarsi as of minor importance. The previously-described C. 
hispidula may possibly belong also to the genus. 
Gen. char. 
Corpus cylindricum. Caput magnum, oculis maxime prominentibus. 
Thorax angustus, antice et postice valde constrictus. Labrum elongatum, 
7-dentatum. Pedes graciles. Tarsorum & articuli vix dilatati, omnes 
subtus densissime pubescentes, scopiformes. 
PENTACOMIA CHRYSAMMA, 2. sp. 
P. egregie forma similis, at robustior ; cylindrica, supra lete rubro- 
fusco-aurea, crebre sculpturata, subtus cyanea, lateribus cupreo-aureis 
splendidis ; labro trapezoidali, favo, 7-dentato, 3 antice dentibus equalibus 
parvis, 2 dente mediano longissimo porrecto instructo; palpis flavis, ad 
summum apicem fuscis; antennis fulvo-testaceis, apicibus nigricantibus ; 
thorace parte mediana breviter ovata, supra omnino creberrime grosse 
scabroso, margine postico transversim striato, linea dorsali tnconspicua ; 
elytris valde inequalibus, utrinque 4-tuberosis, angulo suturali spinoso, 
supra densissime reticulato-punctatis, puncto laterali ab humero distant, 
altero discoidali longe post medium, maculisque duabus triangularibus 
marginalibus, quarum 1" pone medium, altera ante apicem, albis ; pedi- 
bus testaceo-fulvis, femoribus tibiis tarsisque apicibus anguste nigris. 
Long. 43 lin. B 3. 
This handsome insect differs in colour from all other Cicindelide, 
being of a rich light golden-brown; the very dense and rough sculpture 
and the inequalities of the elytra rendering it sub-opaque. It is 
closely allied to C. ewpriventris, Reiche. 
‘ Macas district, Equador (Buckley). 
I have seen about a dozen examples. 
Kentish Town: March, 1872. 
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