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CICINDELID^E. 



coppery bronze colour with brighter reflections in front, with 



the sides of the head and 

 pronotum and of more or 

 less of the elytra bright 

 eyaneous blue and green ; 

 labrum very large and 

 prominent, raised in the 

 middle, strongly toothed, 

 varying in colour ; antennae 

 rather long, slightly thick- 

 ened towards apex, pitchy, 

 with the base metallic ; 

 pronotum long, subcylin- 

 drical, striate transversely ; 

 elytra parallel-sided, with 

 the shoulders and the im- 

 pression between them and 

 the suture well marked, 

 strongly punctured at base, 

 more finely behind, very 

 finely, but distinct^, at 

 apex ; just behind the 

 Fig. 139.— Prothyma exomata. middle, almost touching the 



margin, is a rather large 

 whitish spot, with another smaller one just behind it nearer 

 the suture, and before the apex there is another rather large 

 spot of the same colour at the outer angle ; the small humeral 

 spot appears to be very minute or obsolete in this species ; under- 

 side greenish or bluish ; femora metallic (green or bluish and more 

 or less golden), trochanters and knees red or reddish, tibiae and 

 tarsi reddish or pitchy red. 

 Length 10-12 millim. 



Burma: N. Chin Hills, Karen Kills, Tharawaddy (Corbett), 

 Pegu district ; Annam ; Cambodia. 



Schmidt-Goebel described the species from a single small female 

 specimen of uncertain locality. 



An example of this insect in the British Museum has the labrum 

 black and not testaceous as in Schmidt-Groebers description ; in 

 a specimen which I have before me it is dark testaceous. Differ- 

 ences of this kind are sometimes sexual, but in this case both 

 specimens are females. 



88. Prothyma schmidt-goebeli, W. Horn. 



Euryoda schmidt-yoebeli, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitsckr. 1898, 

 p. 87. 



Very closely allied to P. exomata, Schm.-Groeb., but differs in its 

 more robust build, evidently thicker head, and more convex and 

 thicker pronotum, which has the anterior and posterior impressions 



