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lateral margin, either joining a discoidal spot near the suture and 

 forming an oblique band narrowed in the middle, or else separate 

 from it, and another variable spot (round, oblique or partly crescent- 

 shaped) before the apex ; the punctuation is shallow but usually 

 distinct, except on the centre of the disc, and the punctures are 

 often greenish ; the elytra are rather strongly depressed before the 

 apex and are slightly dilated behind the middle, the sutural angle 

 being furnished with a very short spine ; legs more or less metallic, 

 trochanters ferruginous ; episterna of metasternum rather thickly 

 pubescent ; the sides of the presternum and abdomen are scantily 

 pubescent, the former being almost bare and not punctured. 

 Length 7-8 millim. 



Sikkim : Darjiling ; Bengal : Dacca, Chota Nagpur, Asansol : 

 Assam: Sylhet, Patkai Hills; Burma: North Chin Hills, Teinzo, 

 Bhamo, Tharawaddy, Karen Hills, Euby Mines, Momeit, Ran- 

 goon ; Tenasserim ; Cochin China. 



Taken in deep jungle (Annandale). 



125. Cicindela bigemina, Klug. 



Cicindela bigemina, King, Jahrb. Ins. i, 1834, p. 30. 

 Cicindela tremula, Brulle, Arch. Mus. Paris, i, 1835, p. 135, pi. 9, 

 fig. 3. 



Cicindela iravaddica, Gestro, Ann. Mus. Genova, 1893, p. 35. 

 Cicindela biqemina suhsp. procera, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 

 1905, p. 34. 



Cicindela bigemina subsp. brevis, W. Horn, 1. c. 



In general appearance much resembling several of the allied 

 species ; of an obscure brownish or greenish colour with metallic 

 reflections, which are stronger on the front parts ; lab rum clear 

 whitish testaceous, head depressed and distinctly striate be- 

 tween the eyes, occiput and pronotum very finely rugose; the 

 latter longer than broad, parallel-sided, with the impressions and 

 central line feeble ; elytra with the suture coppery and the extreme 

 margins greenish metallic, dull, uniformly and thickly, but feebly, 

 punctured, as a rule, but variable, the punctation of the apex and 

 base being sometimes stronger and the disc almost smooth ; on 

 each elytron there is a whitish yellow spot at the shoulder, two 

 on the disc, one before and one behind the middle, an inverted and 

 curled V-shaped mark at the middle reaching the margin, and a 

 line (not widened into a spot at either end and sometimes much 

 reduced) along the oblique margin before the apex ; legs metallic, 

 trochanters pitchy ; underside violaceous or greenish, coppery in 

 front, with much thicker pubescence thau in the allied species, the 

 genae and extreme middle of the abdomen alone being bare. In 

 the male there is a large seta on the first joint of the antennae and 

 a small bunch of hairs on the fourth joint. 



Length 9-10 millim. 



Sikkim : Pankabari, Kurseong ; Bengal : Purneah, Calcutta, 

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