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CICINDELIUvE. 



The range is very wide, including the South of Spain, Morocco, 

 Corsica and Sardinia, Sicily, Greece, Hungary, Germany, Silesia, 

 Suez, and nearly all Central Asia to North China. 



Group 10. 



Sides of pronotum clothed with pubescence, which invades 

 more or less of the disc; underside (except in the centre) and 

 the genaB clothed with thick or very thick and long projecting 

 pubescence ; clypeus, at least at the sides, and the inferior 

 internal margins of the eyes, pubescent. Length 10-14 mm. 



Key to the Species. 



I. Colour bright green ; pubescence of the pro- 

 notum much shorter and more tomentose, 



and more projecting- at the sides chloris, Hope, p. 376. 



II. Colour brown or dull green ; pubescence of 

 the pronotum thinner and less tomentose, 



and less projecting at the sides funerea, McL., p. 377. 



155. Cicindela chloris, Hope. 



Cicindela chloris, Hope, Gray's Zool. Miscell. 1831, p. 21. 

 Cicindela himaleyica, Kedtenbacher, Hugel's Kaschmir, iv, 2, 1848, 

 p. 497, pi. 23, tig. 1. 



A bright green species; labrum testaceous; mandibles green, 



testaceous at base ; clypeus 

 and head at base of antennae 

 thickly pubescent ; head striai e 

 between eyes, with a few white 

 hairs on the surface, which are 

 often rubbed off; pronotum 

 green, with the sides and de- 

 pressions blue or violaceous, 

 slightly transverse, finely ru- 

 gose, with thick and coarse 

 pubescence at the sides ; 

 elytra much broader than 

 pronotum, dull, grauulose and 

 shagreened throughout, with 

 traces of two impressions on 

 each between shoulder and 

 suture, wider in the female 

 than in the male, and less 

 abruptly narrowed before 

 apex, with the sutural angle 

 much more strongly pro- 

 Fig. 165.— Cicindela chloris. duced ; disc and shoulders 



immaculate; at the margin 

 about the middle there are two white spots joined by a thin line, 

 very rarely broken, and before the apex a more or less comma-shaped 



