CICINDELA. 



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b J. Elytra variegated metallic, metallic, or velvety, 

 in the latter case with or without large 

 green punctures distributed on disc. 



Group 3, p. 330. 

 C. tetragrammica, ivester?nanni, crassipalpis, 

 rugosiceps, chlorida. 



c. Length 17-25 mm. 



a*. Elytra velvety, more or less brilliantly coloured, 

 with the whole underside brilliantly metallic. 



Group 13, p. 380. 

 C. octonotata, duponti, aurulenta. 



6 # . Elytra velvety black, with the shoulders, apex 

 and a transverse fascia in the middle orange- 

 yellow Group 19, p. 411. 



C. shivah. 



B. Upper surface smooth, glabrous, and shining, dark 

 metallic on disc, with the margins more or less broadly 

 (regularly or irregularly) white ; at the sides of the 

 prothorax there is a thick fringe of setse, projecting 

 more or less beyond the sides of the pronotum ; length 



] 0-] 7 mm ^ . Group 28, p. 430. 



C. limbata, biramosa, maindroni, bellana, 

 quadrilineata. 



2. Elytra distinctly ovate or obovate, glabrous, white, with 

 darker markings ; pubescence of prosternum very thick 

 and tomentose, and projecting in a fringe beyond sides 

 of prosternum ; gense quite bare and shining ; length 



8-12 mm : Group 27, p. 428. 



C. ornata, copulata. 



ii. Epipleurae of elytra furnished with long pubescence at the 

 sides of the metasternum ; legs, especially the posterior 

 pair, much elongated ; size very small (6-6^ mm.). 



C\ phalangites. Group 29 > P« 435 « 



Group 1. 



This consists of four species, confined to Ceylon. They have 

 all been comparatively recently described and are at present very 

 scarce ; when more examples have been found the descriptions 

 may have to be somewhat modified. They are small or rather 

 small insects with the elytra dull metallic and the front parts 

 brighter, and are characterized by the obliquely sinuate hind parts 

 of the elytra, and by having the episterna of the meta- and meso- 

 sternum furnished with more or less scanty pubescence, the 

 episterna of the prosternum being bare and smooth. 



They may be distinguished as follows : — 



I. Labrum black, metallic; male with the 

 apex of each elytron broadly and roundly 



truncate ; pronotum in the female dilated [p. 324. 



behind ; colour of elytra greenish ganglbaueri, W. Horn, 



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