CICINDELA. 



383 



Length 16-18 millim. 



Madras : Mahe, Trivandrum, Mysore ; Bombay : Kailara ; 

 Bengal; Chota Nagpur, Dacca; Assam: Khasi Hills (Shillong, 

 Oherra Poonji, Nonpriang, Maupun), Patkai Hills ; Buema : 

 Arakan, North Chin Hills, Pegu ; Penang ; Cochin China. 



This species at first sight resembles C. chinensis, but is smaller 

 and proportionately narrower, and the colour and markings are 

 different, the latter being on a smaller scale. 



Var. barmanica, Gestro. 



This variety at first sight looks more like C. aurulenta than 

 C. duponti, but the elytral markings are those of C. duponti, and 

 the sides of the pronotum are a little straighter, as in the last- 

 named species. The green colour throughout is replaced by 

 golden coppery, which is broader and extends all round the sides 

 and broadly down the suture ; the femora are brilliant coppery 

 green and blue ; the pubescence on the underside is the same as 

 in the type-form. 



Madras: Mlgiri Hills (IT. L. Andrewes) ; Assam: Sylhet, 

 North Manipur ; Burma : Karen Hills (Feci), Tharawaddy (Corbett), 

 Pegu (Feci). 



4i This variety occurs occasionally everywhere with the priority- 

 form, more frequently in the eastern localities " (Horn). 



(J. chinensis, De Geer, has been recorded from Simla; but this is 

 most probably incorrect. No histoiy is attached to the two speci- 

 mens which are in the Indian Museum. 



162. Cicindela aurulenta, F. 



Cicindela aurulenta, Fabricius, Syst. El. i, 1801, p. 239 ; Dejean, 



Spec. Col. i, 18:25, p. 46. 

 Cicindela Jlavomacidata, Chevrolat, Eev. Zool. 1845, p. 98. 

 Cicindela virgula, Fieutiaux, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1893, p. 491. 



A rather large and variable species. Labriun testaceous, with 

 the margins and centre dark ; head plainly striate between the 

 eyes and finely rugose transversely, metallic green, blue aud 

 coppery, the sides and two longitudinal short bands at the base 

 being usually blue ; pronotum almost square, with the sides 

 straight, the centre, sides and depressions green and blue and the 

 rest brilliant coppery, sides with scanty pubescence ; elytra con- 

 siderably broader than the pronotum, dark blue, dull and velvety,, 

 with the suture rather broadly coppery and the apex and extreme 

 margius metallic, usually green or blue ; there is a whitish spot 

 at the shoulder and three others on each elytron, the front and 

 hind ones being more or less round, but varying in size, and the 

 central one varying from a large, transverse or almost round patch 

 to a mere line ; femora metallic, variegated ; tibiae, tarsi, and first 



