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CICINDELIDJi. 



Does not fly by day; runs swiftly on wet, short-grassed and 

 open places ; comes to light in the evening, seems to fly after 

 dark (Horn). 



84. Prothyma limbata, Wied. 



Cicindela limbata, Wiedemann, Zool. Mag. ii, 1, 1823, p. 64. 

 Euryoda tetraspilota , Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1852, p. 29. 



A shining and brightly coloured little species, crimson or with 

 a violaceous tinge, with the scutellum, and the suture, shoulders, 



sides and apex of the elytra green, 

 or bright blue, these colours being 

 also more or less present on the 

 vertex and margins of the pronotum ; 

 head between the eyes feebly ex- 

 cavate with very strong striae which 

 appear to reach further back in the 

 male than in the female ; antennae 

 pitchy, with the base metallic ; pro- 

 notum subquadrate, very slightly 

 narrowed behind, with the sides 

 very gently rounded, and with the 

 central line often more or less obso- 

 lete and the upper surface very finely 

 transversely sculptured ; elytra with 

 the shoulders well marked, strongly 

 punctured at base and more finely 

 towards apex, parallel-sided in the 

 male, somewhat widened behind in 

 the female, with two very distinct, 

 Fig. 138.— Prothyma limbata. almost equal-sized, white spots on 



each near the margins, one just 

 behind middle and one before apex ; legs more or less metallic 

 green or black, tibiae and tarsi, for the most part, pitchy ; under- 

 side shining, bright blue or violaceous. 

 Length 9-10 millim. 



Bengal : Calcutta : Punjab : Jhelum Valley, Simla. 



In the only specimens I have seen, the male, besides having the 

 elytra parallel-sided and not widened behind, has the labrum white 

 with the margins metallic ; in the female the labrum is uni- 

 colorous dark metallic. 



85. Prothyma feze, Gestro. 



Cicindela fee?, Gestro, Ann. Mus. Genova, 1889, p. 88. 



A smooth green metallic species, with the disc of the elytra 

 cyaneous purple, and the suture golden coppery ; each elytron has 

 on its posterior half two smooth oval whitish spots, arranged one 

 behind the other near the lateral margin ; labrum whitish in the 

 middle in the male, entirely bronze-green in the female; head 



