CICINDELA. 



365 



Sikkim : Darjiling ; Bengal : Chota JNagpnr, Asansol, Ber- 

 hampur. 



145. Cicindela mutata, Fleut. 



Cicindela mutata, Fleutiaux, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1893, p. 486. 

 Cicindela cognata, Gestro (nec Wied.), Ann. Mus. Genova, 1893, 

 p. 356. 



This species is closely allied to O. cognata, Wied., with which 

 it has been confused, but is a more obscurely coloured insect with 

 a distinct dull obscure coppery or greenish coppery reflection, and 

 the elytral markings, which are similar in character, thinner and 

 less pronounced ; the general sculpture and the shape of the 

 pronotum are much the same, but the latter is very slightly 

 shorter ; the pubescence of the underside is much thinner and less 

 tomentose, and the colouring of the underside is coppery and 

 green, not blue and violaceous, as in 0. cognata. It is quite a 

 distinct species, and easily recognizable. 



Length millim. 



Burma: Bhamo, Teinzo, and Pegu (Feci), Tharawaddy (Corbett). 

 In one or two of the specimens before me the markings of the 

 elytra are very obscure and hardly traceable. 



Fig. 158. — Cicindela cognata. 



