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CICINDELID.E. 



labium large, produced in the middle, with five strong teeth, 

 testaceous, with the anterior margin broadly chirk; head broad, 

 flat between the eyes, which are not prominent, striated near the 

 eyes and rugose between the striation, occiput finely sculptured ; 

 pronotum somewhat transverse, with the sides very gradually 

 narrowed to the base, strongly impressed in front and behind, with 

 fine rugose sculpture ; elytra velvety, very finely sculptured, with 

 a large orange-yellow patch reaching from the shoulders to the 

 scutellum, and continued to about one-third, contracted at each 

 side in the middle, and then again dilated ; the sides of the patch 

 do not touch the margins ; just behind the middle are two large 

 transversely oval spots, not quite touching the margin and 

 nearly reaching the suture, and before the apex there are two 

 others, very slightly smaller ; the apex is rounded and the sutural 

 angle is produced into a short blunt point ; legs metallic green 

 and cyaneous, trochanters clear red ; underside cyaneous, with 

 the ventral portion green, episterna and genre bare, sides of an- 

 terior segments of abdomen and the metasternum with white 

 pubescence. 



Length 17| millim. 



Cambodia; Cochin China; Siam. 



The typical form of the species is extremely rare, and so far as 

 I know, has not occurred within our area ; the following varieties, 

 however, are found. 



Yar. bramani, Dokht. 



Smaller and narrower than the typical C. mouftoti; labrum 

 almost entirely dark, and dark testaceous in the middle ; head 

 dark green, cyaneous at the sides, excavate and flat between the 

 eyes which are not very prominent, plainly but finely striated, 

 very finely rugose behind ; antennae with the first four joints 

 cyaneous and green, the rest fuscous; pronotum about as long as 

 broad, dark green on the head, with the anterior margin cyaneous, 

 and the sides slightly cyaneous and a little brighter, central line 

 feeble, sculpture rugose and fine ; elytra dull velvety black, with a 

 very slight greenish reflection in some lights, sides and suture not 

 brighter than disc, distinctly, but not deeply, punctured, except 

 towards the apex, parallel-sided with the apex gradually rounded, 

 and the sutural angle produced into a distinct spine ; at the 

 shoulders there is a distinct triangular orange-yellow patch ex- 

 tending from the margins to the scutellum, and from the posterior 

 end of this proceeds a narrow wavy longitudinal stripe to behind 

 the middle, where it is first contracted and almost broken and 

 then widens out into a large irregular spot ; there is also a round 

 spot, a little smaller than this, just before the apex, near the 

 margin ; legs coppery green and cyaneous, trochanters dark ; 

 underside green and cyaneous, with the sides of the abdomen, the 

 edge of the posterior coxae, the metasternum, and also the episterna 



