CIGTNBELA. 



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metallic ; episterna of metasternum bare, except for a tuft of 

 white hairs at the inner posterior corner, centre of metasternum, 

 coxa?, and sides of abdomen scantily bat plainly pubescent. 



Fig. 171. — Cieindela bicolor. 



Length 15-17 millim. 



Bombay : Poona ; Punjab : Simla ; Bengal : Calcutta, Asansol, 

 Maldah, Birbhum, Berhampur, Murshidabad, Sahibganj ; Assam : 

 Khasi Hills. 



On the young rice-fields ( Westermann). 



177. Cieindela mariae, Gestro. 



Cieindela marice, Gestro, Ann. Mus. Genova, 1898, p. 361. 



A moderate-sized, parallel-sided, dark species with yellow 

 markings on the elytra ; head and pronotum more or less ob- 

 scurely coppery or greenish with coppery reflections, blue or green 

 at the sides ; the former broad and flat between the eyes, which 

 are moderately prominent, distinctly striated, - and very finely 

 sculptured behind ; labrum testaceous, with a larger or smaller 

 dark margin, the testaceous colour being sometimes reduced to a 

 spot ; pronotum subquadrate in the male, slightly transverse and 

 narrower behind in the female, closely sculptured, wilh scanty 

 pubescence on the sides of the upper surface ; elytra black, or black 

 with a greenish tinge, velvety, with a transverse yellow spot at the 

 shoulders, and proceeding from this a large variable sinuate stripe, 

 ceasing before the middle, sometimes confluent with the humeral 

 spot, and sometimes interrupted behind, followed by two large, 



