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CICINDELID.E. 



the tints being variable ; head long behind the eyes (which are 

 large and moderately prominent), smooth and shining, frontal 



impression rather strong with the sulci 

 deep, sides more rounded in the female 

 than in the male ; labrum partly tes- 

 taceous, more or less pitchy ; antenna} 

 variable in colour, rufo- testaceous, 

 more or less pitchy ; pronotum long, 

 flask-shaped, moderately strongly con- 

 stricted at the base, with the dilated 

 part much broader and more rounded 

 at the sides than in N. parvula, pro- 

 notal colluni very distinct, slender, 

 parallel-sided, and scarcely dilated at 

 the apex ; upper surface smooth and 

 shining with a few feeble scattered 

 punctures, underside rather strongly 

 pilose ; elytra evenly and rather 

 strongly punctured with a tendency 

 to become slightly rugose in places 

 (but this varies in different specimens), 

 nearly smooth at the apex, shoulders 

 not marked.; legs rufo -testaceous, 

 tibia? and tarsi more or less pitchy ; 

 metasternum distinctly punctured ; in the female the two pro- 

 jecting points at the apex of the last ventral segment spring from 

 a small plate projecting from the margin, and not from the 

 margin itself. 



Length 12-124 millim. 



Sikkim : Upper Teesta Valley, E. Himalayas, 4000 ft. ; Assam : 

 Sylhet, Khasi Hills, Patkai Hills, Naga Hills ; Burma : Thara- 

 waddy; Malay States: Bukit Besar, Nawngchik, 2500 ft., May to 

 September (Robinson). 



Fig. 106. 



wllyris variicorn i& 



Var. flavolabiata, W. Horn,. 



Dr. Horn first introduced this variety as a species allied to 

 _ZV, parvula, from which it may be at once known by the dense 

 punctuation of the sterna ; it differs from the type-form of 

 JS T . variicornis in having the labrum and the legs almost entirely 

 testaceous, and in its small size. 



Length 9 millim. 



Andaman and Kicobae Islands (Cormvallis and de Boep- 

 storff). 



Var. gestroi, W. Horn. 



This variety is closely allied to the preceding, but differs in its 

 larger size and in having the anterior and posterior portions of 

 the pronotum longer, so that the whole form appears more slender ;. 



