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CICINDELIDiE. 



T. concinnus, Gestro, is only a colour variety of this species. 



There is a specimen from the Ruby Mines which has the general 

 form narrower and the front more excavate and narrower, with a 

 transverse impressed line behind the sulci instead of the two im- 

 pressions ; it may be a distinct species, but I cannot satisfactorily 

 separate it. 



78. Therates obliquus, Fleut. 



Therates obliquus, Fleutiaux, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1893, p. 497. 



A very small dark species ; labrum red ; antennae fuscous or 

 reddish fuscous, with the first joint clear testaceous underneath;, 

 and the next two or three metallic ; palpi reddish : head dark, 

 blackish bronze, pronotum dark, sometimes reddish ; head with 

 two strong frontal sulci which are bounded at base by a distinct 

 transverse impression, so that the part between, the eyes appears 

 raised and separate ; the head is in part very finely striate, so that 

 it appears duller than in some species ; pronotum transversely 

 globose, but rather less so than in T. chenelli ; elytra dark, with 

 rather indistinct lighter markings, consisting of a submarginal 

 basal stripe, and another narrow oblique one behind the middle ; 

 the punctuation is strong in front, obsolete behind, the extreme 

 apex being lighter and finely punctured ; underside black, or in 

 part ferruginous ; legs testaceous with the bases dark. 



Length 6-74 millim. 



Burma : Momeit, Ruby Mines. 



79. Therates gestroi, W. Horn. 



literates gestroi, W, Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitsckr. 1900, p. 196. 

 Therates gestroi, var. annandalei , W. Horn, Eec. Ind. Mus. ii, pt. iv ? 

 1908, p. 412. 



The following is Dr. Horn's description of the typical T. gestroi, 

 which has been found in Siam, but has not occurred in our 

 region : — 



" Allied to the male of T. hraatzi, Horn, but differs in having 

 the whole front as smooth as the vertex, and broader between the 

 orbits of the eyes, which are flatter and furnished at base with 

 three short longitudinal wrinkles ; the vertex is also a little less 

 constricted ; elytra shining, less parallel-sided, dilated in the 

 middle and behind, with the sculpture almost the same ; as 

 regards the markings the lunule at the shoulder is narrower and 

 shorter (almost as in T. chenelli, Bates, var. concinna, Gestro), and 

 there is a rather narrow testaceous stripe, slightly curved, at the 

 basal angle near scutellum, which is continued very briefly along 

 the suture and is not connate with the basal lunule ; the oblique 

 discoiclal spot is set further forward than in T. Jeraaizi, being 

 almost at the middle, and the apex is not flavescent ; posterior 

 coxse dark towards base ; legs coloured as in T. rugulosus (tibise 

 and tarsi mostly flavescent, trochanters yellow)." 



