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CICINDELIBvE. 



153. Cicindela aulica, Dej. 



Cicindela aulica, Dejean, Spec. Col. v, 1831, p. 214: AY. Horn,, 

 Mon. Pal. Cic. 1891, p. 155, pi. 6, fig. 4 ; id.. Deutsche Ent. 

 Zeitschr. 1891, p. 332. 



Very variable in colour ; upper surface entirely brown, greenish 



blue, blue, or more or less 

 dark coppery, or with the 

 elytra dark olivaceous or 

 almost black, with the sutural 

 and basal parts and the head 

 and pronotum coppery ; each 

 elytron has, when fully 

 marked, a crescent - shaped 

 spot at the shoulder, another 

 lateral one at the middle, and 

 a third at the apex, and two- 

 round white spots on the 

 disc, one just at the middle 

 and one nearer suture behind 

 this ; the lunulate lateral 

 and apical patches are often 

 divided, thus forming eight 

 spots on each elytron ; occa- 

 sionally the central spots are 

 confluent with the upper 

 branch of the central cres- 

 cent ; labrum white ; jaws 

 Fig. 164.— Cicindela aulica. large, dark, with a white 



patch at base ; clypeus with 

 scanty, but distinct, pubescence ; head rather strongly striated ; 

 pronotum almost quadrate, but somewhat variable, being longer 

 and narrower in some varieties than in others, very finely sculp- 

 tured ; elytra rather strongly punctured towards base, with larger 

 punctures intermingled, smooth behind, with an impression inside 

 the shoulders, and with the sutural region before base raised 

 into a distinct hump-like prominence ; legs metallic ; underside 

 metallic, shining : sides of the whole body, including gense, clothed 

 not very thickly with whitish pubescence. 

 Length 121-14 millim. 



Sind : Karachi ; Persia ; Arabia ; Somaliland ; Benguela ; 

 Senegal ; Abyssinia ; Egypt ; Cape Verde Islands ; Greece ; 

 St. Vincent. 



Dr. W. Horn has kindly sent me the above list of localities for 

 this widely distributed species. 



A considerable number of examples have been taken at 

 Karachi by Mr. Bell. 



