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CICIN DELIDJE. 



159. Cicindela oberthuri, Fleut. 



Cicindela oberthuri) Fleutiaux, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1893, 

 p. cccxvi. 



Labrum testaceous, with dark margins ; head blue or green, 



strongly striated between 

 the eyes ; pronotum sub- 

 quadrate, slightly narrowed 

 to the base, with fine rugose 

 sculpture, bright green, with 

 the central line and margins 

 blue and violaceous, sides 

 with very scanty pubescence ; 

 elytra more parallel-sided in 

 the male than in the female, 

 dull, dark blue or greenish, 

 with the suture, and more or 

 less of the base and apex, 

 shining blue or green; there 

 is a small round white spot 

 at the shoulder and three on 

 the disc, one behind the 

 other, the basal or apical 

 ones being more or less 

 round and the central one 

 oblique and irregular; legs 

 brightly metallic : underside 

 with distinct but scanty 

 pubescence at the sides, the episterna of the metasternum being 

 pubescent on the upper part and at the sides, and the gense 

 being furnished with a few white hairs. 

 Length 13-15 raillim. 

 Bengal ; Sikkim : Mungphu, Kurseon<?. 



This species at first sight looks like a blue variety of C. auru- 

 lenta, with which it has much in common ; the pubescence, 

 however, of the episterna of the metasternum and of the genae 

 will serve to distinguish it. I found a single specimen in the 

 Indian Museum collection mixed with the var. flavovittata of 

 C. aurulenta. 



GrEOTJP 13. 



Large or moderately large, more or less brilliantly coloured, 

 conspicuous species ; sides of the pronotum practically without 

 pubescence or setae except at the posterior angles ; underside with 

 thick pubescence at the sides ; episterna of metasternum scantily 

 pilose or almost bare ; genae very scantily pubescent or almost 

 or quite bare. 



Key to the Species. 

 1. Length 20- 25 mm. ; spots on elytra very 



large and conspicuous odonotata, Wied., p. 881. 



106. — Cicindela oberth ti ri. 



