CICTXDELA. 



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Group 12. 



Brightly coloured species, of moderate size (14-15 mm., rarely 

 smaller), forming a transition to the old genus Calochroa ; sides 

 of pronotum with a few very fugitive setae ; under surface with 

 the sides not thickly pubescent ; centre of the episterna of the 

 metasternum almost bare ; genae with a few scattered hairs. 



Key to the Species. 



I. Pronotum a little shorter, with the sides 

 straighter, coppery, with the margins 

 green, blue, and violaceous ; elytra dull, 

 olive-green, with the suture coppery, 

 and with the spots smaller and more 

 numerous, finely but distinctly sculp- 

 tured intermedia, Chaud., p. 379. 



II. Pronotum a little longer, with the sides 

 slightly narrowed before base, bright 

 metallic green, with the central line 

 and margins blue and violaceous ; 

 elytra dark blue or greenish, with the 

 suture brilliant blue or green, and 

 with three conspicuous spots only on 

 each, besides the small humeral spot ; 



sculpture scarcely traceable oberthuri, Fleut., p. 380. 



158. Cicindela intermedia, Chaud. 



Cicindela intermedia, Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1852, p. 6. 



A moderate-sized species ; labrum testaceous, with the margins 

 dark, rather short, mandibles testaceous with black tip ; maxillary 

 palpi metallic, labial palpi testaceous with dark apex ; head and 

 pronotum bright metallic, but not very shiny, green, violaceous or 

 coppery, variable ; head rather strongly striate between the eyes ; 

 pronotum very slightly transverse, with the sides straight, 

 gradually and feebly narrowed to base, with the basal prominences 

 well marked and with distinct pubescence at the sides ; scutelJum 

 bright blue or green ; elytra much broader than pronotum, with 

 the sides slightly rounded, sutural angle with a distinct spine in 

 the female, upper surface finely shagreened, dull olivaceous green 

 or bluish green, with the suture and extreme base coppery, and 

 the apex and external margins metallic green or blue ; there is a 

 white spot at the shoulders, which are well marked, and four 

 others on each elytron, three in a longitudinal row near the 

 margin, and a small one just behind the middle one and near 

 the suture ; the two latter are rarely joined ; underside shining 

 green and violaceous, and the sides, including the sides of the 

 episterna of the metasternum, not thickly pubescent ; femora 

 metallic, tibiae and tarsi dark ; genae with a few white hairs. 



Length 14-15 millim. 



Kashmir : Jhelam Valley (Bell) ; Punjab : Assam. 



