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CICINDELID^. 



sinuately at some little distance from the apex, the interior sutural 

 angle ending in a long sharp spine ; on the side of each there are 

 three spots, placed much as in the other allied species ; the bright 

 spot near the front one is present in the female ; legs brilliant 

 metallic green and blue, with the femora more or less golden ; 

 underside green and blue with the central parts golden ; pubes- 

 cence of sides of abdomen and of meta- and meso-sternum scanty 

 but distinct. 



Length 9-9| millim, 



Ceylon. 



In the male there is a large white spot at the shoulders which 

 appears to be obsolete and represented by a shining space in the 

 female. 



101. Cicindela willeyi, W. Bom. 



Cicindela willeyi, W. Horn, Spol. Zeyl. ii, 1904, p. 7, pi. i, fig. 4. 



Allied to C. waterhousei, but differs in having the forehead 

 between the eyes more excavate and the vertex narrower, the 

 pronotum narrower and longer, conical, gradually widened from 

 apex to base, with the sides straight ; the disc is more strongly 

 transversely striated ; the elytra are more dilated in the middle, 

 the apical part is narrowed and arcuate for a much greater 

 distance, and is more shortly rounded at the extreme apex, the 

 sutural apical spine being much longer ; the orbits, scutellum, 

 extreme apex of the elytra, and the episterna of the prosternum 

 are bright blue ; the maxillary palpi are yellow with part of the 

 apical joint dark ; there are three white spots on each elytron, and 

 a bright space near the front one in the female : the humeral spot 

 is very small or wanting ; the general colour of the elytra appears 

 to be dull coppery, as in C. waterJwusei. 



Length 9^-10| millim. (8-9| sine labro). 



Ceylon : Central Province. 



Dr. Horn at the end of his description says : — " The other allied 

 species are C. clormeri, m. and C. ganglbaueri, m. The former is 

 already sufficiently distinguished by the parallel shape of the 

 pronotum and the elytra. The latter is larger than the new 

 species ; all coppery reflections are replaced by greenish ; the 

 labrum is metallic black, the prothorax a little broader, and the 

 elytra in the middle are much less dilated, the apex is broadly 

 and simply rounded with a short sutural spine; the whole last 

 joint of the maxillary palpi is metallic, &c." 



To judge by the figure in the " Spolia Zeylanica " (I. c.) C. willeyi 

 is an extraordinary-looking insect, very different from any of the 

 other three species, the elytra being very strongly dilated, with 

 wavy sides, 



