CICINDELA. 



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170. Cicindela unica, Fleut. 



Cicindela unica, Fleutiaux, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1895, p. ccxlv. 

 Cicindela Jiauoguttata, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitsciir. 1895, 

 p. 359. 



A moderate-sized species ; green, with the edges of the head and 

 pronotum slightly blue, elytra very dark, almost black towards the 

 apex ; labrum dark, subparallel-sided, with seven teeth on the 

 anterior border ; mandibles yellow, apex black ; head aud pro- 

 notum finely shagreened, the latter constricted in front and behind, 

 slightly narrowed towards the base ; elytra somewhat granulose, 

 furnished with a large yellow oblique patch just behind the 

 middle and not touching the margins ; epipleurse of the elytra 

 yellowish; underside blue, with the sides violet ; episterna bare, 

 sides of the metasternum and of the abdomen covered with rather 

 long white hairs ; legs violaceous. 



Length 14-16 millim. 



The only localities given are, " Inde " (Fleutiaux) and "Ex occi- 

 dental! meridionali India? Orientalis Anticae ora " (Horn). 



This species belongs to the group with yellow epipleurse of the 

 elytra (interrupto-fasciata, etc.). It is closely allied to C. mouhoti 

 var. goebeli, W. Horn ( = tritoma, Grestro, nec Scbm.-Goeb.) and is 

 remarkable for the length of the tarsi, especially the anterior pair. 

 Dr. Horn compares it with C. andrewesi, from which it differs in 

 its more convex form, in having one patch only on the elytra, in 

 the shorter labrum, and in the broader elytra, which are not 

 velvety, but entirely and distinctly sculptured ; the head and 

 pronotum are also thicker and the margins of the abdomen are 

 less pubescent, 



This is the only species belonging to the old genus Calochroa 

 which has only one spot or patch on the elytra, in which it resembles 

 O. assamensis. 



Since I wrote the above Dr. Horn has very kindly sent me the 

 unique type of C. flavoguttata which he regards as identical with 

 Eleutiaux's species ; it is, unfortunately, in very poor condition, and 

 most of the pubescence has evidently been rubbed off. The 

 following is a description of it : — - 



Labrum black, with five distinct teeth in front and the sides 

 bluntly produced (this fact reconciles Fleutiaux' and Horn's (I. c) 

 statements; the former says that it is 7-toothed and the latter that 

 it is 5-toothed) ; head and pronotum black, with very slight metallic 

 reflections at the sides ; the former broad and plainly striated 

 between the eyes, very finely rugose behind ; pronotum finely 

 sculptured, more strongly so in front of the anterior impression, 

 about as long as broad, with the sides slightly rounded, not setose 

 at the sides ; elytra long, subparallel-sided, with the shoulders 

 nearly right angles, narrow in proportion to their length, 

 distinctly shagreened in front, more finely so behind, very dark 

 green, or black-green with a single bright yellow oblique spot on 

 each just behind the middle ; legs cyaueous, trochanters dark, 



