CICINDELA. 



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141. Cicindela discreta, Schaum, var. reducta, W. Rom. 



Cicindela discreta, Schaum, Journ.Eut. viii, 1868, p. 59. 



Cicindela reducta, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1892, p. 370. j 



A very small and obscure-looking species ; labrum rather large, 

 produced in the middle, testaceous ; head and pronotum greenish 

 with coppery reflections, the former rather deeply excavate and 

 striate, the latter long, subcylindrical and parallel-sided, very 

 finely sculptured, with the central line not strongly marked ; 

 elytra duller, obscurely greenish with slight coppery reflection, 

 comparatively narrow, distinctly sculptured, impressed within the 

 shoulders, with a more or less triangular white spot in the centre 

 of the margins and a white spot between this and the suture, and 

 with the oblique apical margin narrowly white, the white portion 

 being not, or very slightly, dilated at either end ; legs and under- 

 side metallic green and violaceous, sides of the latter with scanty, 

 and not tomentose, pubescence ; genae with sparse but distinct 

 pubescence, which appears to be easily rubbed off. 



Length 6-7 millim. 



Assam {Boherty) ; Burma : North Chin Hills; Sumatra; 

 Borneo : Sarawak. 



The type-form, which extends through the Malay Region to 

 New Guinea, is not found in India; it is larger, with the pro- 

 notum broader and therefore shorter in proportion, and the elytra 

 distinctly broader ; the markings are different, as there is a white 

 crescent at the shoulders (entirely wanting in the variety) and a 

 distinct white spot before the apical margin, which is rarely joined 

 to its upper extremity ; the markings are evidently variable, for 

 in a specimen of the type-form before me, from Celebes, there is 

 no apical line nt all, and the humeral crescent is divided into two 

 quite distinct spots. 



Group 7. 



This group is made up of six or seven small species, 8-10 mm. 

 in length; the sides of the pronotum are set with longer or shorter 

 setse, which occasionally invade the disc ; the underside, except 

 the central portion of the body, including the head and gense, are 

 clothed with white, usually thick and tomentose, pubescence ; but 

 in C. mutata this is, although distinct, comparatively thin; the 

 markings in several cases are very distinct and intricate. 



Key to the Species. 



I. Elytra with the white or whitish testa- 

 ceous margins very plainly interrupted 

 in two or three places, 

 i. Elytral markings very conspicuous. 

 1. Head and pronotum bright metallic 



green erudita, Wied., p. 362. 



