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ClCINDELIDvE. 



slightly rounded at the sides, finely granulose ; elytra very gradu- 

 ally widened behind almost to apex and then abruptly rounded at 

 apex, strongly and sparingly punctured, with the bottom of the 

 punctures green ; general colour of upperside dull green with a 

 slight coppery reflection ; markings small, according to the de- 

 scription, much as in C. undulata, but less numerous; underside 

 and legs more or less coppery, trochanters ferruginous. The species 

 is closely allied to C. undulata, but differs in being smaller, of a 

 darker colour, and with the white elytral markings less numerous. 

 Length 10 millim. 



Burma: Taik-gyi, in Pegu (Fea, June); Saigon (Fleutiauco) ; 

 Tonkin : Chiem Hoa ; China (teste Chaudoir). 



Only one example is known from the extreme limits of the 

 Indian area. 



135. Cicindela melancholica, F. 



Cicindela melancholica, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. 1798, p. 63;; 

 W. Horn, Mon. Pal. Cieind, 1891, p. ISO, pi. iv, fig. 8, pi. v, rig. 40.. 



Allied to C. leucoloma, but distinguished by its more oblong 

 form, the finer sculpture of the pronotum, and by having the pale 

 elytral margin narrower and interrupted before and behind the 

 middle ; from C. undulata it may be known by the somewhat 

 longer pronotum and by the more parallel- sided elytra; from 

 C. fastidiosa it may be separated by the narrower and much less 

 strongly rugose pronotum and narrower pale elytral margin. The 

 general colour is dull greenish with slight coppery reflections, 

 which are more evident on the elytra ; legs metallic, with the 

 tibiae and tarsi reddish, and the trochanters red or ferruginous ; 

 the pubescence of the underside is very thick, almost tomentose at 

 the sides, the centre of the whole body and the gense being bare. 



Length 9i-10 millim. 



Sind : Karachi (Bell) ; Bombay : Bandra ; Centeal Provinces : 

 Nagpur ; Bengal. 



The typical C. melancholica is a very widely spread insect and 

 occurs in Europe, and throughout Africa and Palsearctic Asia ; it is 

 one of the very few cosmopolitan species which, like C. auUca, 

 have penetrated to Southern Asia. It was described from Sierra 

 Leone. 



136. Cicindela undulata, Dej. 



Cicindela undulata, Dejean, Spec. Col. i, 1825, p. 96. 

 Cicindela dubia, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1892, p. 80. 



This species may be distinguished from the two preceding by 

 the fact of the female having a distinct, though not a very shining, 

 smooth patch on the anterior portion of the disc of the elytra, and 

 ordinarily by its much more attenuated white markings ; these, 

 however, are variable ; the colour is usually obscure green, with 



