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94. Heptodonta kraatzi, W. Horn. 



Heptodonta kraatzi, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitsclir. 1899, p. 54. 



Allied to H. nodicollis, from which it may be known by its 

 longer and not transverse pronotum, which is almost smooth ; the 

 shoulders are a little narrower and the elytra less unevenly im- 

 pressed, with the rugose sculpture much less close and the 

 wrinkles shorter ; the whole upper surface is bluish green, rather 

 shining, with the sides mostly blue ; apparently there are no 

 white spots as in H. nodicollis. The female only is known. 



Length 13|-14 millim. (12-12| mm. sine labro). 



Sikkim : Mungphu, Darjiling (Indian Museum) ; Assam : Khasi 

 Hills. 



95. Heptodonta pulchella, Hope. 



Cicindela pulchella, Hope, Gray's Zool. Miscell. 1831, p. 21. 

 Cicindela hopei, Parry, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1845, p. 84. 

 Cicindela variipes, Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1850, p. 1 1 . 

 Heptodonta ferrarii, Gestro, Ann. Mus. Genova, 1893, p. 3G6. 



A large, dull, olive-green species, sometimes with an obscure 

 aeneous reflection ; labrum large, testaceous, with seven distinct 

 teeth, jaws and palpi testaceous with black apex ; head very finely 

 sculptured, antennae pitchy, with base metallic ; front more or 

 less obscurely impressed between the eyes ; pronotum sub- 

 quadrate, with the sides rounded and somewhat contracted before 

 base, central line distinct, impressed angularly in front and 

 behind, so that the whole central portion is apparently raised 

 and rounded off in two portions, sculpture very fine and close, 

 sides almost smooth, shining; scutellum rather large; elytra with 

 the shoulders well marked, and with a distinct short longitudinal 

 impression just inside them, sides quite parallel and straight from 

 shoulders to a little before apex, from whence they are obliquely 

 truncate, apex itself truncate, interior angle ending in a distinct 

 tooth ; before the apex the elytra are strongly impressed, the 

 part before the impression being much raised ; the sculpture is 

 very fine, but distinct throughout, and gives the insect a very 

 finely shagreened appearance : legs red, with a ring before apex 

 of the femora, part of the tibiae, and the tarsi black, or the 

 femora may be dark with a red ring before apex ; they are, 

 however, variable ; underside brilliant cyaneous or green, with or 

 without golden reflections. In the male the anterior tarsi are 

 strongly dilated and pilose beneath, and the intermediate tarsi 

 are also, though less strongly, dilated and pilose. 



Length 15-17 millim. 



Sikkim : Mungphu, Darjiling ; Nepal : Burma : Karen Hills 

 (Fed) ; S.W. China : Yunnan. 



H. ferrarii, Gestro, appears to be only a smaller and duller 

 variety of this species, with the pronotum slightly longer ; it was 

 found in the Karen Hills. 



