CICINDELA. 



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163. Cicindela whitbilli, Hope. 



Cicindela whithilli, Hope, Col. Man. ii, 1838, p. 23. 



Variable both in size and colour ; usually green, with the front 

 parts green or blue, but the colour varies from bright blue to 

 almost dull black ; labrum metallic at sides, dark in the centre; 

 head very finely sculptured ; pronotum almost quadrate with the 

 sides straight, finely transversely rugose in the centre, asperate 

 at the sides, basal depression deep, sides without pubescence ; 

 elytra more or less dull, with the suture and sides brilliant green, 

 immaculate, with the exception of a minute white spot on each 

 just at the middle, upper surface finely shagreened, smooth on 

 disc before the apex ; legs and base of antennae metallic ; the 

 female is larger than the male and has the elytra wider ; underside 

 brilliant metallic green, practically bare ; sides of abdomen with 

 very scanty pubescence. 



Length 13|-18 milliin. 



Madras : Travancore, Anaimalai Hills and Nilgiri Hills (H. L. 

 Andrewes), Utakamand, Mahe (Maindron) ; Bombay : Wvnaad H 

 Kanara (Bell), Belgaum and Khanapur (H. E. Andrewes), Poona ; 

 Burma : Tharawaddy (Corbett). 



Mr. Bell says, " found in paddyfields round Haligal with C.sex- 

 punctata in the June rains, the latter being much more numerous,, 

 in the proportion of ten to one." Mr. Leslie Andrewes says,. 

 "Anaimalais, May, 3000-4000 feet; flying and running on 

 sandy road. Nilgiris, May and June, 3500-6000 feet ; on dusty 

 roads." 



" Mr. Bell found this species only in one or two parts of 

 Southern Bombay, near the rivers : the insects < just jostled one 

 another ' sitting carpeting the grouud in patches, among them a 

 few of other species." (Horn.) 



164. Cicindela sexpunctata, F. 



Cicindela sexpunctata, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 1775, p. 226 ; Dejean,. 



Spec. Col. i, 1825, p. 47. 

 Calochroma sexpunctata, Motschulsky, Etud. Ent. xi, 1862, p. 22. 



A moderate-sized, dark velvety species. Labrum short, more 

 or less dark, mandibles mostly uncovered, metallic or dark, light 

 at base; head and pronotum with very obscure metallic reflections, 

 blue or green at the sides, the former often with two longitudinal 

 metallic stripes below the eyes, very finely sculptured, the striation 

 being extremely fine ; pronotum quadrangular, with the impres- 

 sions and central line distinct, and with a bright metallic callosity 

 at each end of the basal one, quite bare at the sides, extremely 

 finely transversely striated ; elytra with the sides somewhat 

 rounded, velvety, with the sides and suture narrowly bright green 

 or blue, very finely shagreened, with three white or yellowish 

 spots on each of about the same size, arranged in a line, at 



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