CICINDELA. 



357 



more or less coppery reflection ; labrum white ; antennas with the 

 first four joints metallic and the rest more or less ferruginous or 

 reddish ; pronotum at least as long as broad, rather strongly and 

 rugosely asperate, with the impressions and central line not 

 strong ; elytra in the typical form with a minute spot on the 

 disc at the anterior fourth, the margin narrowly white for about 

 the middle third, emitting at the middle a thin white line bent at 

 the end nearest suture ; there is a discoidal spot near the suture 

 behind this, and the apical margin is white and produced linearly 

 at its upper end; legs metallic, trochanters red; underside blue, 

 greenish and coppery, thickly pubescent, genae bare. The elytral 

 markings are variable, and the shoulders may have no spot (this is 

 not sexual) or a large distinct crescent. 

 Length 10-12 millim. 



Ceylon ; Madras : Mahe (Maindron), Chilka Lake, Mysore, 

 Eamnad ; Central India : Gwalior; United Provinces : Allah- 

 abad ; Bengal : Dacca, Calcutta, Chota JNagpur (Asansol, Lohar- 

 daga, Nowatoli) ; Assam: : Sylhet ; Hongkong. 



Var. dubia, W. Horn. 



Smaller than the type-form and differing in having the smooth 

 space or "mirror" on the elytra of the female brighter, and the 

 elytra strongly rounded separately, so that the sutural spiues are 

 considerably projecting ; the markings are almost the same as in 

 G. speculifera, to which species it ought perhaps to be referred. 



Length 10 millim. 



India (?). 



Type in coll. Eichter. 



J 37. Cicindela imperfecta, Ohaud. 



Cicindela imperfecta, Ohaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1852, p. 8. 

 Cicindela atelesta, Ohaudoir, 1. c. 1854, p. 4. 



Cicindela despecta, Fleutiaux, 0. K. Soc. Eat. Belgique, 1886, p. 88 

 (ex parte). 



Upperside brown, more or less coppery ; labrum short, testa- 

 ceous ; head rather broad, very finely striate near the eyes, central 

 and hinder portions very finely rugose ; pronotum isubquadrate, 

 with the sides not rounded, impressions and central line distinct, 

 pubescence at the sides coarse and distinct ; elytra narrower and 

 somewhat widened behind, very finely sculptured ; the white 

 markings are as follows : a spot at the shoulder more or less pro- 

 duced behind, a larger or smaller spot not far from the margin at 

 about the anterior third, and the margin itself from a little before 

 to some way behind the middle (the line being irregular and often 

 interrupted) ; from this margin proceeds a transverse line, hooked 

 before the suture ; there is also a spot near the suture behind the 

 middle, and another nearer the margin before the apex, which 

 often meets the extended arm of the white apical marginal line ; 

 legs more or less coppery, trochanters dark metallic ; unaerside 



