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173. Cicindela assamensis, Parry. 



CieAndela assamensis, Parry, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv, 1845, p. 84 ; 



id., op. cit. v, 1848, p. 80, pi. 11, fig. 1. 

 Calostola assamensis, Motsckulsky, Etud. Ent. xi, 1862, p. 22. 



A rather large dark species ; dull black, with an obscure greenish 

 reflection, which is apparently sometimes absent on the elytra ; 

 labrum dark, clypeus and front of head more or less metallic, genae 

 and sides and underside of head and pronotum bright violaceous 

 and green ; head broad, large, flat and striate between the rather 

 prominent eyes, vertex slightly contracted in the male, quite 

 straight and as broad at base as the pronotum in the female, oc- 

 ciput extremely finely sculptured ; pronotum transverse, parallel- 

 sided, with long deep depressions in front and behind, finely rugose 

 transversely and without setae at the sides ; elytra subparallel- 

 sided, or slightly and gradually rounded towards the apex, very 

 dull, very finely and not closely shagreened in front, almost smooth 

 behind, with a large yellow spot at the shoulder of each, and a 

 large round one, variable, just behind the middle ; apex unicolorous; 

 legs and base of antennae metallic ; underside entirely violaceous 

 and green, metasternuin in centre and posterior coxae with thick 

 white pubescence, episterna of metasternum with a tuft of hairs 

 at the inner posterior corner, the rest bare. 



Length 18-20 millim. 



Sikkim : Mungphu, Sulma, Darjiling district ; Assam : Sylhet, 

 Cachar, Sibsagar, Ivhasi Hills, Patkai Hills, North Manipur ; 

 Burma : Arakan, etc. ; Penang. 



" A very common species at the base of the E. Himalayas ; 

 abundant on the banks of sandy streams in jungles, but not, as a 

 rule, entering the jungles." (AnnandaJe.) 



174. Cicindela mouhoti, Chaud. 



Cicindela mouhoti, Chaudoir, Cat. Coll. 1865, p. 60. 

 j Var. Cicindela bramani, Dokhturoff, Rev. d'Ent. 1882, p. 261. 

 ) Var. Cicindela interrupto-fasciata, Fleutiaux (?iec Schm.-Goeb.), 



Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1893, p. 494. 

 (Tar. Cicindela goebeli, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1895, 



i p- 92 -. . 



! \ ar. Cicindela tritoma, Gestro (nec Schm.-Goeb.), Ann. Mus. 

 1 Genova, 1889, p. 81 ; id., op. cit, 1895, p. 361. 

 | Var. Cicindela anometallescens, Fleutiaux {nec Horn), 1. c. p. 492 

 ^ (ex parte). 

 Var. Cicindela cariana, Gestro, op. cit. 1893, p. 363. 

 Var. Cicindela anometallescens, W. Horn, Ent, Nachr. 1893, p. 140. 



A moderately large species, with the head and pronotum metallic 

 green, with cyaneous reflections, the sides being' brighter, and the 

 elytra dark cyaneous or violaceous blue, with large yellow spots ;, 



