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CICINDELID.E. 



of hills at 2500 to 4500 feet; on roads and open spaces generally." 

 It is usually considered a very scarce insect, and is evidently very 

 local; it appears to be semi-arboreal in its habits. 



168. Cicindela andrewesi, W. Horn. 



CicindeJa andrewesi, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1894, p. 171, 

 pi. 3, fig. 1. 



A rather narrow dark species, with three short narrow yellow 

 bands on each of the elytra, one behind the other ; labrum dark, 

 with a testaceous spot, clypeus green ; head and pronotum black, 

 extremely finely sculptured, eyes only slightly prominent ; prono- 

 tum of the same breadth as the head, subquadrate, parallel-sided 

 or slightly narrowed to base, without setae on the upper surface at 

 the sides ; elytra dull, smooth, with a narrow yellow oblique baud 

 reaching from the shoulder nearly to the middle, a second oblique 

 one behind this, and a small one parallel with the suture before the 

 apex ; legs dark ; underside mostly violaceous, with the sides of 

 the pro- and meso-sternum bare in the female, scantily pubescent 

 in the male, and the centre of the episterna of the metasternum 

 bare in both sexes ; sides of the abdomen scantily pilose. 



Length 12|-17 millim. 



Bombay : North Kanara (Bell). 



This is a very distinct species ; its nearest ally appears to be 

 C. ceylonensis, but this is narrower, and as a rale much smaller, 

 and has quite different markings. 



169. Cicindela mauritii, W. Horn. 



Cicindela andrewesi subsp. mauritii, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. 

 Zeitschr. 1908, p. 23. 



This species, which is regarded by Dr. Horn as only a subspecies 

 of C. andrewesi, differs from the latter in having the head and 

 pronotum shorter and broader, and smaller than in C. unica, Eleut., 

 which Dr. Horn also now regards as a subspecies or variety of 

 C. andrewesi ; the elytra are about as broad as in C. unica, but 

 are a little narrowed towards the shoulders ; the humeral lunulate 

 spot is shorter than in C. andrewesi, the central spot is broader 

 and so appears shorter, and the apical spot is very small ; these 

 markings will further distinguish it from C. unica. 



Length 14-16 millim. 



South- Western India. 



Dr. Horn considers this insect as forming a connecting link 

 between C. andreiuesi and C. unica, and in consequence regards all 

 three as races of the one species, C. andrewesi ; but C. andrewesi 

 and C. unica may, with reason, be kept distinct, and, if so, it is 

 best to regard C. mauritii as distinct also. 



