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II. Length 15-18 mm.; spots on elytra less 

 conspicuous. 



1. Pronotum subquadrate, slightly nar- 



rowed towards base ; central discoidal 

 markings straight and linear, reach- 

 ing almost from the margin to the 

 suture, anterior discoidal spot very 

 small, if present, much smaller than 



the apical spot dupontl, Dej., p. 382. 



2. Pronotum almost square, with the sides 



straight ; central discoidal markings 

 broader towards margin than towards 

 suture, anterior discoidal spot rather 

 large, about the same size as the 



apical spot aurulenta, F., p, 383. 



160. Cicindela octonotata, Wied. 



Cicindela octonotata, Wiedemann, Zool. Mag. i, 3, 1819, p. 168; 

 Dejean, Spec. Col. i, 1825, p. 45. 



A very large and beautiful species, one of the most brilliantly 

 coloured of the genus. Labrum testaceous, with the base dark, 

 mandibles testaceous with the apical part more or less dark, 

 elypeus metallic blue or green ; head and pronotum coppery, 

 golden, blue and green, the former depressed and striated between 

 the eyes, the depression being furnished with two short and broad 

 violaceous stripes in front, the margins being of the same colour, 

 sides without pubescence ; pronotum almost quadrate, parallel- 

 sided, blue or green in the centre, then coppery, sides and 

 depressions blue or green ; elytra deep velvety blue, with the 

 suture, sides and apex, and a spot at suture in front of middle, 

 brilliant green, and the extreme base coppery red and green ; there 

 is a large yellow spot at the shoulders, and three other large ones on 

 each side (so that the elytra appear to be barred with yellow and 

 blue), one behind shoulders and one at apex, round, and a central 

 one, which is sometimes irregularly transverse and sometimes 

 contracted in the middle ; femora brilliantly metallic, tibiae and 

 tarsi cyaneous or violaceous ; underside blue and green with the 

 centre sometimes coppery, with thick pubescence at the sides, the 

 episterna of the metasternum being scantily pilose ; the genae are 

 bare, except for a few scanty hairs near their inner margins. 



Length 20-25 millim. 



Punjab: Simla; United Provinces: Agra; Bengal: Dacca, 

 Asansol, Maldah, Pusa, Murshidabad, Ganges R. ; Sikkim : Panka- 

 bari ; Assam : Lushai Hills, Sibsagar, Sylhet, Khasi Hills, N. 

 Manipur ; Burma : X. Chin Hills, Tharawaddy and Jamayi 

 (Corbett), Pegu. 



Apparently plentiful where it occurs, and widely distributed in 

 Northern India, Assam, and Burma. On the stony river-beds of the 

 Sunkas, Eaidak, etc., in North Assam (Stebbing). On the argilla- 

 ceous banks of the Ganges River (Westermann). On sandy banks 

 of a jungle stream at the base of the E. Himalayas (Annandale). 



