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CICINDELIILE. 



markings at the sides. Horn considers this and another variety 

 {multinotata, Schm.) as subspecies, but they only differ from the 

 type in the spots ; in both there are more spots, and in the 

 var. opigrapJia they are differently shaped from what they are 

 in var. multinotata ; neither of these, however, occurs in our 

 region. 



The species is mainly, if not entirely, confined to jungle. 



Group 11. 



This group contains only one species, a dark insect (10-11 mm. 

 in length) with small white spots on the elytra ; it is closely allied to 

 the preceding, and differs in having the whole upper surface of the 

 pronotum in fresh specimens covered with more or less distinct 

 hairs. I at first included it under Group 10, but have followed 

 Dr. Horn in separating it. 



1-37. Cicindela albopunctata, Chaud. 



Cicindela albopunctata, Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1852, p. 10. 

 Cicindela olivia, Bates, Cist. Ent. ]878, p. 3-30. 



Hark, with a slight metallic reflection, sometimes slightly oliva- 

 ceous, dull ; labrum comparatively short, whitish, maxillar}^ palpi 

 metallic, labial palpi testaceous, with the apex dark ; clypeus 

 pubescent at the sides ; head very finely sculptured, the striae 

 between the eyes being scarcely apparent, except under a 

 fairly strong lens ; pronotum not transverse, with the sides 

 almost parallel, and the whole upper surface more or less 

 pubescent in fresh specimens, the under surface and the genae 

 with long thick white pubescence, very finely sculptured, central 

 line scarcely marked ; elytra much broader at base than the 

 pronotum, broadly depressed just inside the shoulders, widened 

 behind, plainly granulose throughout, with a crescent-shaped 

 spot at shoulders and three other markings on each touching 

 the margin, the apical one consisting of two prominences joined 

 by a line ; on the disc of each elytron are two nearly round 

 small spots, one before and one behind the middle ; legs metallic ; 

 underside, except in the middle, clothed throughout with dense 

 white pubescence. 



Length 10-11 millim. 



Punjab : Simla {teste Chaudoir), Kangra Valley {Dudgeon) ; 

 United Provinces : Mussoori, Moradabad, Chamusuri {teste 

 Bates) ; Nepal ; Sikkim : Kurseong {Bretandeau), Harjiling^ 

 Mungphu, Ghoom ; Bhutan. 



