390 



CICIXDELIDiE. 



testaceous, with the apex dark ; head and pronotum metallic cop- 

 pery, with more or less green and 

 red reflection and the sides cyane- 

 ous ; head depressed between the 

 eyes, rather strongly so in the 

 female, finely sculptured ; pro- 

 notum a little longer than broad, 

 subcylindrical, rather shining, dis- 

 tinctly rugose transversely, without 

 seta) at the sides and with the 

 depressions in front and behind 

 not strongly marked ; scutellum 

 coppery or in part greenish ; elytra 

 long, sub parallel-sided, of a velvety 

 reddish olive-green colour, the red 

 prevailing at the apex and 

 shoulders and the green at the 

 sides ; each elytron has a. longi- 

 tudinal whitish yellow streak 

 reaching for almost a fourth of its 

 length from the middle of the base, 

 followed by a shorter streak, and 

 behind this two spots, one just 

 behind middle and one before apex ; in the male there is also a 

 large spot on the shoulders ; the elytra at the extreme apices are 

 rounded in the male, subtruncate in the female ; their upper sur- 

 face i3 scarcely sculptured, but the green colour appears to be 

 produced by large numbers of* very minute green impressions ; 

 femora brilliant coppery, knees, tibiae, and tarsi cyaneous ; gense 

 with a bright green streak ; underside of head and abdomen 

 violaceous or cyaneous, of the other parts brilliant copper and 

 green ; mesosternum pubescent, all the episterna bare, sides of 

 abdomen almost bare. 

 Length 16-20 millim. 

 Ceylon : Colombo, Nalanda, Randy. 



Fig. 168. — Cicindela discrepans. 



Yar. lacrymans, Schaum. 



This variety differs from the typical form in the much less stout 

 and less bulky shape of the head, pronotum and elytra, the more 

 produced teeth of the longer labrum, the more slender legs, and 

 the smaller and narrower yellow spots on the elytra, the apical one 

 being situated further from the margin. 



Ceylon : Randy, July and August. 



167. Cicindela hamiltoniana, Thorns. 



Cicindela hamiltoniana, Thomson, Arch. Ent. i, 1857, p. 323. 

 Cicindela Jlavovittata, Chaudoir, Cat. Coll. 1865, p. 61. 



A very distinct and conspicuous species ; elongate and parallel- 

 sided. Head and pronotum shining green with the front and 



