CICINDELA. 



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comparatively short ; head large, with the eyes not very prominent, 

 forehead scarcely excavate, plainly stri- 

 ated, vertex behind the eyes scarcely 

 constricted, the hind portion or occiput 

 being very closely and finely sculptured ; 

 antennae dark, with the base metallic ; 

 pronotum rather long, slightly narrowed 

 behind, about as long as the head without 

 clypeus and labrum, sides very gently 

 rounded in front, sculpture very fine, 

 mostly transverse ; elytra widened and 

 rounded behind, widest behind middle, 

 narrowed to base, broadly sinuate before 

 the extreme apices which are rounded, 

 velvety, with blurred lighter impressions, 

 which look like abrasions of the surface, 

 and with a rather large triangular spot 

 just at the margin behind middle, and 

 another, smaller and often more or less 

 obsolete, before the sinuate portion of 

 Fig. 151.— Cicindela the apex; legs dark, more or less me- 

 dromicoides. tallic with the tibiae and tarsi more or 



less reddish ; underside cyaneous ; ab- 

 domen with a few white setse, metasternum very finely sculptured, 

 with very scanty and fugitive pubescence. 

 Length 11-12 millim. 



Punjab : Simla ; United Provinces : Kumaon (Annandale) ; 

 Nepal ; Sikkim : Kurseong, Darjiling, Mungphu ; Bengal : 

 Chot&Nagvm* (Car don), Now£Ltoli(Fleiitia?i:e); Assam; Khasi Hills. 



In the Oxford Museum there is a specimen with the following 

 label : — " Has wings, but always runs ; thorax rather long ; seems 

 to depart from the ordinary types of Cicindela^ This is certainly 

 the case, and I cannot help thinking that it ought to be separated ; 

 it has been placed under Parmecus, Mots., and Jansenia, Ohaud., 

 but has again been restored to Cicindela by Dr. W. Horn. The 

 pubescence of the underside is very easily rubbed off, and it was 

 only after carefully examining several specimens that I came to 

 the conclusion that it belonged to this group, tc which Dr. Horn 

 has rightly assigned it, if it is to remain under Cicindela. 



115. Cicindela funebris, Schm.-Goeb. 



Cicindela funebris, Schmidt-Goebel, Col. Faun. Birm. 1846, p. 8. 

 Cicindela dolens, Fleutiaux, B'j.l. Soc. Ent. France, 1886, p. 111. 



A small species ; head and pronotum metallic, aeneous or green, 

 elytra dark, dull, sometimes with greenish markings ; labrum 

 short, testaceous ; head broad, with the eyes moderately prominent, 

 the space between these finely striated ; pronotum narrow, rather 

 longer than broad, somewhat coppery at the sides, convex, slightly 

 narrowed behind, with the sides rounded, distinctly rugosely 

 sculptured, middle line obsolete ; elytra with the sides almost 

 straight in the male, widened behind in the female, uneven, with 



