CICINDELA. 



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front punctured, and the middle and apex smooth, and with two 

 rather large pale testaceous spots on each near the margin, a round 

 one at the middle, and a posterior one which is larger and elongate ; 

 legs, including coxse, rufo-testaceous, with the femora slightly 

 aeneous; underside with the episterna of the pro- and meta-sternum 

 and the sides of the abdomen set with white villose pubescence. 

 Length 10 1 millim, 



Madras : Malabar Coast, Podanur, near Coimbatore {Captain 

 A. K. Weld-Downing). 



111. Cicindela lacunosa, Putz. 



Cicindela lacunosa, Putzeys, C. R. Soc. Ent. Belgique, 1875, p. 68. 



A very small species ; head, pronotum and elytra entirely 

 aeneous, the latter very uneven, with two white spots on each, the 

 first round, on the centre of the disc, a little behind the middle, 

 the second larger, almost triangular, just before the apex near the 

 margin, labrum testaceous, short and bisinuate ; head rugose ; 

 pronotum subquadrate, slightly narrowed towards the base, with 

 the sides slightly rounded and abruptly constricted in front and 

 behind, and with the sculpture a little stronger than on the head ; 

 at the sides there are scanty white hairs, which are easily rubbed 

 off ; elytra elongate, subcylindrical, a little enlarged before the 

 middle, obliquely truncate behind ; there are three separate 

 irregular and smooth elevations occupying the middle of each 

 elytron, the rest of the surface being punctured ; between the 

 larger elevations and the suture there is another less distinct ; 

 underside mostly blue, bordered with golden green ; sides of 

 the body, including the episterna, with long and scanty pilose 

 pubescence. 



Length, (J 8, ? 9 millim. 



Ceylon : Puttalam, October {teste W. Rom), Habarane 

 {E. E. Green). 



112. Cicindela corticata, Putz. 



Euryoda corticata, Putzeys, 0. R. Soc. Ent. Belgique, 1875, p. 69. 

 Yar. Cicindela keticolor, W. Horn, Spol. Zeyl. ii, 1904, p. 7. 



Entirely coppery bronze, with the sides cyaneous or green (this 

 is more or less obscure in some specimens) and the underside 

 cyaneous ; labrum testaceous, with a dark spot in front ; head aud 

 pronotum sculptured much as in C. rugosiceps, but not so strongly ; 

 pronotum as long as, or a little longer than, broad, subcylindrical, 

 not strongly constricted in front or behind, with a few short 

 white hairs (easily rubbed off) at the sides ; elytra long, 

 cylindrical, a little narrowed in front, with the surface uneven, 

 each having two obscure and very irregular broad and shallow 



