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CICINDELID^E. 



a variety of C. obliquefasciata, Adams, which he now treats as a 

 distinct subspecies of C. germanica, L. I think it best to follow 

 his later work, but, so far as I have seen, C. germanica has the 

 episterna of the lnetasternum bare, whereas the insect described 

 below has them distinctly, though scantily, pubescent. Dr. Horn, 

 however (Mon. Pal. Cic. p. 82), says that Schaum is wrong in 

 saying that the sides of the underside of C. germanica are without 

 hairs, as in fresh specimens separate hairs are sometimes visible 

 on the upper edge of the episterna of the metasternum. The very 

 large number of described varieties and subspecies of the com- 

 moner European species are somewhat bewildering, but it is only 

 those workers, who, like Dr. Horn, have access to large numbers, 

 that can decide their distinctness. 



132. Cicindela germanica, L., var. kirilovi, Fisch. 



Cicindela germanica, Linnreus, Syst. Nat. ii, 1735, p. 657. 

 Cicindela kirilovi, Fischer, Ball. Soc. Moscou, 1844, p. 7, pi. 1, fig. 3. 

 Cicindela germanica, L., subsp. obliquefasciata, Adams, var. kirilovi, 



W. Horn, Mon. Pal. Cicind. 1891, p. 88, pi. iii, fig. 3 a. 

 Cicindela germanica, L., subsp. kirilovi, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. 



Zeitschr. 1905, p. 28. 



A rather small, dark species, with slight coppery and greenish 

 reflections ; labrum almost entirely testaceous ; head broad, finely 

 but distinctly striated between the eyes ; pronotum parallel-sided, 

 quadrate, very finely asperate, setose at the sides, with the central 

 line and depressions not strong ; elytra dull, almost black, but 

 very slightly coppery, and with greenish shallow punctures, some- 

 what widened behind, obliquely and rectangularly truncate before 

 apex (almost as in Heptodonta), with a spot on each at the shoulders, 

 a fleck at about one-third from the base between the suture and 

 the margin, an oblique waved fascia at the middle, and the apical 

 margin, white ; the latter marking is slightly produced towards the 

 oblique fascia ; underside green and cyaneous ; abdomen and 

 episterna of metasternum very scantily pubescent ; gense and 

 prosternum bare. 



Length. 11 millim. 



Kashmir ; Grilgit ; Western Siberia ; Turkestan ; Persia. 



" The priority-form occurs almost all over Europe from Spain 

 to the Caucasus ; in the north of Persia, in some parts of Turkestan 

 (e. g. Tekke, Tashkend), Khirgiz and Dsougaria ; the subsp. 

 kirilovi does not occur in Europe, but is known from Transcaspia 

 to the Kolyvan district, Altai and Dsongaria, from Turkestan, 

 .Kashmir, and almost the whole of Persia (up to Sarhad and Seistan 

 in the south-east). The locality ' Daurien ' (south-east of Trans- 

 baikalia), is doubtf ul " (Horn, Annotated List of Beetles in 

 Indian Museum, i, p. 4). 



