CICINDELA. 



359 



Var. lunulata, W. Horn. 



This newly described variety has the humeral crescent com- 

 plete, and the elytra dark and more indistinctly punctured. 

 Madras. 



The two following species are included somewhat doubtfully in 

 this section, and they should probably form a separate section 

 altogether. The first of them, 0. davisoni, Gestro, is placed by 

 Dr. Born (Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1905, Beiheft, p. 34) in his 

 catalogue near to C. Jmmillvna, Grestro; Gestro appears, however, 

 to regard it as representing a separate section of Euryoda 

 (Prothyma), Only one specimen, apparently a female, is known, 

 and this I have not seen. The second species, C. prothymoides 

 (Horn, Stettin. Ent. Zeit. 1908, p. 120), is closely allied to 

 C. davisoni, and, as its name implies, resembles closely the 

 genus Prothyma. 



139. Cicindela davisoni, Gestro. 



Cicindela davisoni, Gestro, Ann. Mus. Genova, xxvii, 1889, p. 89 



Elongate, cylindrical, seneous, with the forehead greenish 

 aeneous; antennae fuscous, with the first four joints ferruginous 

 at apex ; labrum white, mandibles ferruginous ; palpi white, with 

 the last joint fuscous ; sides of the pronotum and the cheeks 

 obscurely cyaneous ; elytra with two white spots on each, one at 

 the shoulders and the other (transverse) at the apex, and also with 

 a central oblique S-shaped white stripe ; underside obscurely 

 cyaneous ; legs ferruginous. Head broad, e}'es very prominent, 

 the space between them being deeply impressed on both sides aud 

 rugosely striate, forehead rugose ; pronotum very narrow, cylin- 

 drical, longer than broad, with the apical, basal, and central furrows 

 well marked, and the surface finely and closely rugose ; elytra 

 elongate, parallel-sided, scarcely widened behind, punctured, the 

 punctures at the sides being closer and confluent ; legs long. 



Length 7 J millim. 



Tenasserim : Thagata {Fed), 



140. Cicindela prothymoides, W. Horn. 



Cicindela prothymoides, W. Horn, Stettin. Ent. Zeit. 1908, p. 120. 



Head, (including clypeus, gense and forehead), pronotum and 

 abdomen without hairs ; elytra sloping towards the margin and 

 coloured as in Prothyma and Odontochila, without spots. 



The female differs from the female of C. davisoni in having the 

 eyes a little more distant, the labrum longer, semicircularly pro- 

 duced in front, unidentate, in the middle more distinctly (but not 

 acutely) carinate, and indistinctly margined in front ; the forehead 

 and pronotum are sculptured in the same fashion, but more finely ; 

 the anterior margin of the latter is slightly produced in the middle 



