﻿A NEW SUBSPECIES OF PHILIPPINE CICINDELID/E. 



By Walther Horn. 

 (Berlin, Germany.) 



Family CICINDELID^E. 

 CICINDELA. 



Cicindela clara Schaum, rugothoracica, subsp. nov. 



Differt a Cic. clara suavissima Schaum, fronte antica et vertice paullo, 

 pronoto multo grossius rugatulis (his rugis plus minusve transversis) ; 

 pronoto subopaeo, multo minus convexo, disco ipso paullulum deplanato, 

 antice magis dilatato: elytris evidenter minus gibbosis, postice minus 

 declivibus neque micantibus; signatura testacea ( 9 macula apicali sutu- 

 rali albescente) : maculis omnibus minoribus, puncto subhumerali magis 

 a margine distante. Corpore supra viridi ( 9 capite prothoraceque plus 

 minusve violaceo-aeneis, elytris nigroviolaceis), subtus (et 4 primis anten- 

 narum articulis) coeruleo-viridi, episternis 9 purpureo-violaceis. Long, 

 7.5-8 mm. 



Differt a subspecie aenula mibi vertice prothoraceque evidenter crassio- 

 ribus, fronte antica et vertice et pronoto grossius rugatis; hoc antice 

 magis dilatato, disco minus convexo, basim versus non declivi sed sat 

 gradatim descendente; puncto subhumerali magis a margine rernoto, 

 elytris aut nigro-violaceis aut viridibus, episternis aut clarius purpureo- 

 violaceis aut viridibus. 



lcT19, Ins. Philipp. (Coll. R. C. McGregor) Benguet, Irisan. 



Specimen alteram in coll. Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I., alteram 

 in mea. 



Type 9, No. 1515 in Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila. 



The pronotum bare, with only a few white bristles at the anterior and 

 posterior angles. Lateral portions of the under side of the body sparingly 

 pilose, disc of the abdomen bare. Trochanters brownish, maxillary palpi 

 dark-metallic. The coloration of the body and that of the pattern may 

 be individual. 



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