CICINDELA. 



trochanters are red and the gense not pubescent ; the markings of 

 the elytra are different, the margins being much more broadly and 

 unevenly whitish testaceous ; at the shoulders there is a crescent,, 

 produced behind iuto a sharp point, which almost joins a spot on 

 the disc ; the narrow band starting from the centre of the margin 

 is strongly hooked and ceases at about the middle of the disc ; 

 below the apex of this and nearer the suture is a white spot, and 

 the apical margin is white and produced at its upper end toward 

 the last-named spot ; in the specimens I have seen the elytra are 

 somewhat smaller and more velvety than in the allied species, but 

 this may be exceptional. 

 Length 8-10 millim. 



Punjab : Eawul Piudi ; Kashmir ; Sikkim : Kurseong; Assam ; 

 Bengal: JNowatoli, Chota JNagpur; Central India: Mhovv ; 

 Madras: Mysore; Ceylon: Trincomali; Burma: Pegu district. 



131. Cicindela decempunctata, Dej. 



Cicindela decempunctata, Dejean. Spec. Col. i, 1825, p. 145. 

 Cicindela modica, Gestro, Ann. Mus. Geneva, 1893, p. 351. 



Larger than the preceding species ; front parts with more or less 

 strong metallic reflection, elytra dark with hardly any metallic 

 reflection and with the white spots distinct, or obscurely metallic 

 w T ith the light spots indistinct, without distinct brighter band at 

 the sides ; the latter form appears to be the C. modica of Gestro. 

 Labrum dark with testaceous spots, or testaceous with the anterior 

 margin dark ; head long, with the eyes prominent, rather plainly 

 but finely striated, occiput long, very finely sculptured ; pronotum 

 fully as long as, or rather longer than broad, with the impressions 

 distinct and the central line feeble, very finely sculptured ; at the 

 sides there are white hairs, which are very plain in some specimens, 

 but are easily rubbed off, and therefore are absent in others ; 

 elytra subparallel-sided in the male, slightly widened behind in the 

 female, very finely sculptured, with the centre of the disc smooth, 

 with five white spots on each, one at shoulders, a round one on disc 

 before middle, two irregular ones at the middle (one near margin 

 and one a little behind, nearer suture, sometimes joined by a thin 

 line), and the fifth near apex joining a narrow marginal white line, 

 which is continued to apex ; legs metallic, trochanters reddish or 

 pitchy red ; underside cyaneous or green, with distinct pubescence 

 at the sides, episterna of prosternum bare and impunctate. 



Length 9-10 millim. 



Bengal: Birbhum, Murshidabad, Bajmahal; Burma : Rangoon 

 (Bingham), Palon (Fed) ; Tonkin ; Cambodia. 



The following insect ought perhaps to be placed in this section. 

 Dr. Horn in his latest catalogue (Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1905, 

 p. 25) regards it as a subspecies of C. germanica, L., but in his 

 'Monograph of the Pala?arctic CioiNDELiDiE ' (1891) he placed it as 



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