CICINDELA. 



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punctures on the disc near the suture ; the light markings also are 



somewhat different ; the ground-colour 

 of the elytra is blackish or brownish, 

 but under a high power a number of 

 minute punctures surrounded with 

 aeneous colour are visible, which in 

 some lights show up more strongly 

 than others ; the close subreticulate 

 sculpture is also very evident if mag- 

 nified ; the hibrum is testaceous, long 

 and roundly prolonged in the female, 

 with one strong tooth in the middle, 

 broad and transverse in the male, with 

 the tooth smaller ; the head and pro- 

 notum are coppery, sculptured much 

 as in C. catena, much broader in the 

 female than in the male ; the whole 

 head is without pubescence ; the under- 

 side is mostly bluish cyaneous, with 

 the whole of the lateral parts of 

 the pectoral region of the meta- 

 sternum and of the first four or five 

 abdominal segments densely clothed 

 with white setae. 



Length 10-13 J millim. (9-1 2| sine 

 labro). 



Madras : Podanur, near Coimbatore, 1000 ft., October, 1907 

 {Captain A. K. Weld-Doivning). 



This is a very compact and pretty little species, possessing 

 a facies of its own, and quite distinct. I am much indebted to 

 Mr. H. E. Andrewes for the loan of one of the very few specimens 

 yet discovered. 



Fig. 148. — Cicindela 

 crassipalpis. 



109. Cicindela rugosiceps, Ohaud. 



Cicindela rugosiceps, Chaudoir, Cat. Coll. 1865, p. 57. 



In general appearance much resembling C. cliloropdeura, Ohaud., 

 from which it may be at once known by the sculpture of the head 

 and pronotum and the interrupted metallic colour of the sides of 

 the elytra ; labrum large, metallic ; antennae with the first joint 

 coppery, the next three cyaneous, and the rest dull, pitchy ; head 

 and pronotum coppery, with the sides of the former, the sides 

 and depressions of the latter, and the thin central line, bright 

 blue or green ; at the sides there are a few distinct outstand- 

 ing white setae ; the sculpture of the head and pronotum is very 

 strong ; in the former the part just inside the eyes is striated, 

 and the rest is rugose, more or less convolutely in front, 

 transversely behind ; in the latter the sculpture is much the 

 same as on the back of the head, being more or less transverse : 

 the pronotum is slightly transverse, with the sides rounded ; 



