CICINDELA. 



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spot ; legs metallic ; underside green and violaceous, with the 

 whole of the sides of the abdomen, the episterna and the gense 

 thickly clothed with long white coarse pubescence. 

 Length 114-12 millim. 



Kashmir : Gilgit ; Sikkim : Bungpo (Hodgart) ; Nepal : 

 Soondrijal, Benikhola, Kumdhik, Ghurwal District, Hathikund, 

 and Jumnagwar ; United Provinces : Naini Tal District, 

 Jalaban, Kumaon (Ammangarh and Patair). 



Type in the British Museum ; that of himaleyica in the Vienna 

 Museum. 



There is considerable confusion as to this insect, as Hope's type 

 (so labelled) in the Oxford Museum is plainly C.funerea or one of 

 its varieties, whereas the type in the British Museum, which 

 Mr. Arrow tells me is the real type (from the Hardvvicke col- 

 lection), is the insect described above. 



156. Cicindela funerea, McL. 



Cicindela funerea, McLeay, Ann. Jav. 1825, p. 12. 



Cicindela marginepunctata. Dejean, Spec. Col. ii, 1820, p. 428. 



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



Allied to C. chloris, but usually of a dull greenish bronze or 

 greenish colour, or coppery brown with slight metallic reflections 

 on the front parts, and with the sculpture of the elytra finer ; the 

 general form is rather broader and more robust, and the markings 

 on the elytra are different ; at the shoulders there is a distinct 

 spot, which is wanting in the typical C. chloris, a transverse 

 small marking in the middle and a longitudinal one behind this, 

 both touching the margins and never joined, and a long lunulate 

 patch reaching the apex ; these vary in size, and occasionally there 

 is one spot only before the apical lunule ; the pubescence of the 

 clypeus is only slight, and that of the underside is less thick and 

 tomentose ; underside mostly violaceous. 



Length 12-14 millim. 



Madras : Mysore ; Bombay : Poona ; W. Bengal : Barway ; 

 Punjab: Simla; Nepal; Sikkim: Mungphu, Sukna, Pankabari, 

 Kurseong ; Assam : Sibsagar, Sylhet ; Burma : Tharawaddy, 

 Allanmyo (Corbett), Teinzo, Pegu ; Tenasserim ; Perak ; Java ; 

 Indo-China ; Hainan ; Celebes. 



The brown variety is the C. assimilis of Hope, according to 

 Hope's type in the Oxford Museum, which, however, is in very 

 bad. condition. According to the types in the British Museum, 

 which I am informed are the real types, both C. funerea and 

 C. assimilis are brown insects, C. funerea having one small spot 

 at the sides, besides the humeral spot and apical lunule, and 

 C. assimilis two spots at the sides. I have examined a long series, 

 and I believe that the brown and green varieties can be only 

 separated on their colour, as the spots are variable. C. ojiigrapha, 

 Dej., from Java, is apparently the same speciee, only with more 



