CICINDELA. 



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variegated and somewhat variable, but there appear to be always 

 two longitudinal blue or green stripes between the eyes ; the genae 

 are green; labrum large, mandibles powerful, white, with the 

 apical half black ; head and pronotum finely rugosely sculptured, 

 dull ; antennae metallic, and fuscous red towards the apex ; pro- 

 notum dull metallic, transverse, broader in front thau behind, 

 gradually narrowed to the base, with a few scanty hairs on each 

 side, and the posterior angles brilliantly metallic; elytra dull black, 

 with the extreme base (including scutellum), and the apical edge, 

 metallic, smooth, and with very little sculpture ; at the shoulders, 

 which are well marked, there is a small yellow spot, and four 

 others as above described ; these are rather variable, the posterior 

 being sometimes considerably smaller than the anterior, but as a 

 rule they are of much the same size ; legs metallic, posterior tro- 

 chanters red or fuscous red ; abdomen dark with the apex broadly 

 red or reddish testaceous in both sexes, and the front parts bright 

 violaceous ; the sides of the abdomen and the whole of the meta- 

 sternum are scantily pubescent, except the episterna of the latter, 

 which are bare, with the exception of a small tuft of hairs at the 

 inner posterior corner. 

 Lencjili 16-17 millim. 



Ceylon; Madras: Trivandrum, Nilgiri Hills, Mysore, Kar- 

 kur ; Bombay : Ivanara ; Bengal : Chora Nagpur, Calcutta, 

 Granges Eiver ; Assam ; China. 



In the Oxford Museum there are two specimens of this species 

 from Madras with smaller spots, labelled xanthospilota, Hope, i. I. 



The specimens from Trivandrum and Karkur (Ghat-Malabar), 

 have the spots smaller and differently shaped. 



1 80. Cicindela fabricii, W. Horn. 



Cicindela fabricii, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1894, p. 171. 



A rather large and conspicuous species. Labrum large, strongly 

 toothed, shining metallic green or coppery ; head dull black, or 

 black-green, or slightly coppery, metallic at the sides, velvety, very 

 finely sculptured, the striation between the eyes being hardly 

 apparent ; pronotum varying in colour, coppery or dark, about as 

 long as broad, subcordate, rounded in front and narrowed behind, 

 impressions distinct, side margins with a row of distinct setae, 

 which are easily rubbed off; elytra rather long, subparallel-sided, 

 dark, velvety, with bright green metallic or coppery colour at the 

 extreme base, sides and apex ; at the shoulders is a minute yellow 

 spot, sometimes wanting (this is not a sexual difference), and there 

 are three large yellow spots on each elytron, arranged in a straight 

 longitudinal row on the disc, one usually more oblique than the 

 others at some little distance from the base, a second at the middle, 

 and a third at some distance before the apex ; legs metallic, green 

 and cyaneous or violaceous, trochanters dark ; underside violaceous 



