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with deep parallel longitudinal striae between the eyes, and with 

 concentric semicircular stria? on the forehead ; pronotum rather 

 narrow, with hardly any traces of transverse folds ; legs metallic 

 green, with the tibiae and tarsi coppery ; underside glabrous, 

 cyaneous, green in the middle. 

 Length 9 millim. 



Burma : Teinzo, Bhamo {Feci, May and June). 



I have not seen this species, which appears to be in great 

 measure distinguished by the sculpture of the head. According 

 to Gestro, it is most closely allied to P. quadripunctata, Fabr. 

 (from Java), the type species of the genus, but differs in being 

 smaller and differently coloured, with the sides of the pronotum 

 less rounded, and in the different sculpture of the head and 

 pronotum. 



86. Prothyma inornata, W. Horn. 



Rhytidopluena limbata. Bates (nee Wied.), Entomologist, 1891, 

 Suppl. p. 7. 



Euryoda inornata, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1899, p. 368. 

 Prothyma inornata, W. Horn, op. cit. 1905, p. 13. 



Allied to Euryoda (Cicindela) limbata, Wied., and E.fece, Gestro, 

 but very different in colour, and with the pronotum angular in 

 the middle and its sides more rounded : from the former species 

 it differs in its narrower elytra which are a little more deeply 

 sculptured ; and from the latter in its more robust form, shorter 

 labrum, broader head and pronotum (the latter being also more 

 narrowed at the base), and more ample elytra, which are more 

 dilated behind the middle. The colour of the upperside is obscure 

 coppery bronze with an admixture of dull purple, moderately 

 shiny, the forehead and pronotum being a little brighter ; the 

 sides of the head, pronotum and elytra are bronze-green with here 

 and there a little cyaneous colour, and the anterior and posterior 

 margins of the pronotum and the very narrow suture of the 

 elytra, as well as the apical margin, are greenish bronze ; the 

 underside is shining green, with the episterna cyaneous and 

 the legs bronze. 



Length 10 millim. 



Punjab : Kulu ; Assam. 



The colour in these metallic species is often very variable, so 

 that in the above description, based on one specimen, the account 

 of the colour must be taken with some reservation. 



P. inornata and P. fece are very probably subspecies of P. 

 limbata. 



87. Prothyma exornata, Schm.-Goeb. 



Prothyma exornata, Schmidt-Goebel, Faun. Col. Birni. p. 1, pi. 1, 

 fig. 7. 



Bather long, cylindrical and parallel-sided, of an obscure 



