CICINDELIDiE. 



regular intervals, the first and third at about equal distances 

 from the base and apex, and the second about the middle ; these 

 vary in size collectively to a certain extent, but not in the same 

 individual ; femora metallic, green or violet, tibiae and tarsi more 

 or less pitchy ; underside bright green or violaceous, sides of abdo- 

 men with scanty pubescence ; episterna of rnetasternum bare, 

 except at the inner apical corner. 

 Length 13|-16 millim. 



Ceylon; Madeas : Bangalore; Bombay; Poona ; Bengal: Cal- 

 cutta, Sunderbunds, Bosondhar, Berhampur, Birbhum, Eaniganj, 

 Pauiukdia, Purneah, Maldah, Behar, Alipur, Sara Ghat, Chota 

 Nagpur, &c. ; Kashmie ; Sikkim : Mungphu ; Buema : Eangoon, 

 Pegu, Sittaung Eiver ; Siam ; Andaman Islands ; Cambodia ; 

 Ann am ; China ; Foemosa ; Philippine Islands ; Senegal. 

 • There is a specimen in the Calcutta Museum sent by the 

 subdivisional officer of Diamond Harbour, Hugli Eiver, labelled 

 " Sansi insects, said to eat the stems of plants," but as a matter 

 of fact, it is a beneficial insect, destroying the " rice-sapper " 

 (Leptocorisa acuta) which is a destructive pest in the rice-fields. 

 , The occurrence of the insect in Senegal is very remarkable. 



Geoup 15. 



Closely allied to the preceding group, but with distinct setae at 

 the sides of the pronotum, and with the pubescence of the under- 

 side rather more pronounced. One species only, 



165. Cicindela aurovittata, Bnd. 



Cicindela aurovittata, Brulle, Arch. Mus. Paris, i, 1838, p. 127, 

 pi. 8, fig. 3. 



This has been regarded as a variety of C. sevpunctata, which it 

 closely resembles in general appearance, and it is possible that 

 it may be only a local race of that species, although it seems to be 

 distinct ; it may be known by the coppery colour of the suture, 

 and the broader, green and coppery sides of the pronotum and 

 the elytra ; the best distinguishing character, however, lies in the 

 setae on the sides of the pronotum, and the comparatively strong 

 sculpture of the metallic margins of the elytra; the head and 

 pronotum, too, are more evidently, though very finely, sculptured, 

 and the latter is longer ; the general form is a little more slender 

 but in this respect C. seccpunctata is somew T hat variable. 



Length 12-14 millim. 



Madeas : Pondicherry ; Ceylon {Horn) ; Andaman Islands ; 

 Ntcobae Islands ; Buema : Eangoon ; Philippine Islands. 



The species has been recorded from Central Japan, but 

 Dr. Horn considers this locality to be very doubtful. 



