CICIXDELA. 



iii. Elytra even, without velvety patches 

 or foveas. 



1. Outline of elytra regular or almost 

 regular iu both sexes. 



A. Elytra with white spots or markings 



occasionally touching the margins, 

 but with no part of the side or 

 apical margins continuously white. 



a. Pronotum with the disc strongly 



and brightly meta llic and coppery ; 

 size small (7-8 mm.) ; episterna 

 of metasternum rather thickly 

 pubescent 



b. Pronotum with the disc not brightly 



metallic, as a rule of much the 

 same colour as the elytra, 

 a*. Each elytron with a sinuate 

 marking at the centre, just 

 touching the margin and nearly 

 reaching the suture . . bigemina, 

 b*. Elytra with spots only. 

 a\. Each elytron with four white 

 spots, not arranged in a row. 

 a%. Eyes very prominent ; head 

 behind the eyes slightly ar- 

 cuated and constricted 



b%. Eyes moderately prominent ; 

 head behind the eyes at first 

 dilated and then sharply con- 

 stricted 



b\. Each elytron with three white 

 spots on each, arranged in a 

 longitudinal row 



B. Elytra with the margins from 



shoulders to apex continuously 

 and distinctly whitish testaceous, 

 and with a hooked marking pro- 

 ceeding from the centre of the 

 margins 



C. Elytra with the margins from 



shoulders to apex rather broadly 

 and almost continuously whitish 

 testaceous, but slightly interrupted 

 at about the anterior and posterior 

 fourth ; markings of the elytra 

 much as in C. leucoloinii 



D. Elytra with only the apical margins 



whitish testaceous. 

 a. Elytra not obliquely and rectangu- 

 larly truncate at apex, and with- 

 out greenish shallow punctures. 

 «*. Each elytron with five white 

 spots : one humeral, three on 

 disc, and one joining a process 

 of the white apical margin .... 



339 



spinolce, Gestro, p. 346. 



[p. 348. 



Klug, var. procera, W . Horn, 



viridilabris, Chaud., p. 349. 



nietneri, W, Horn, p. 351. 



[p. 351. 



seriepunctata, W. Horn., 



leucoloma, Chaud., p. 352. 



fastidiosa, Dej., p. 352. 



decempunctata, Dej., p. 353. 



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