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CICINDELIDiE. 



furrows ; the surface is covered with strong punctures towards 

 base which are finer behind, and are rarely confluent, and there is 

 a series of larger aeneous or greenish punctures (8 or 9) on each 

 side of the suture ; the suture is a little raised ; on each elytrou 

 there are two white or yellowish spots, almost round, near the 

 external margin, the first a little below the middle, the other near 

 apex ; underside with the sides (including the episterna but not 

 the genae) very scantily clothed with long white hairs ; prosternum 

 with large punctures ; femora coppery, tibiae and trochanters red, 

 tarsi pitchy. 



Length 9 milliin. 



Ceylon ; Madras : Trivandrum, Travancore, Nilgiri Hills, 

 1250-3500 feet, May (H. L. Andreives), Ramnad, Trichinopoli. 



Yar. lseticolor, W. Horn. 



Larger and more robust than the type, with the head and 

 pronotum thicker, the episterna of the prosternum a little more 

 thickly punctate-pilose, and the elytra more ample and even, with 

 the row of larger metallic punctures more evident and the general 

 punctuation more scanty ; the anterior light spot is longer and 

 nearer the margin ; the femora are pale and only here and there 

 metallic and the last joint of the maxillary palpi (which is partly 

 dark in the type) is entirely yellow ; the general colour of the 

 upper surface is more brightly aeneous, the elytra being dull. The 

 male is smaller and narrower than the female and has the apex of 

 the abdomen more tapering. 



Lengtli 9-1 0| millim. 



Ceylon. 



Group 4. 



One species only belongs to this section, C. tetrastaeta, Wied., 

 which Dr. Horn at first placed under a new genus Tetreurytarsa, 

 but has now referred to Cicinclela ; it is characterized by him as 

 follows : — 



" Male with the first three joints of the anterior and intermediate 

 tarsi dilated (as in Beptodonta) ; labrum moderately produced, 

 without teeth. Female with the labrum moderately produced, 

 with three teeth. Male and female with the penultimate joint 

 of the labial palpi thickened and inflated and the last joint 

 small : sides of the abdomen sparingly pilose." 



The episterna are scantily pubescent ; the upper surface is 

 shiny and brilliantly coloured, being mostly crimson or coppery 

 crimson with bright blue and green metallic margins. It is a small 

 species, with a long cylindrical pronotum, and at first sight bears 

 a superficial resemblance to Euryoda limbata ; except for the 

 dilated intermediate tarsi of the male it is quite distinct from 

 Heptodonta, and cannot be included under that genus. 



