404 



C I CliSTDELIDiE. 



in front, cyaneous behind, with the sides of the abdomen (except 

 before apex), and the metasteraum pubescent, episterna of the 

 pro- and meta-sternum and the genre bare. 



Length 15-1 6| millim. 



Bombay : North Kanara (Bell). 



This species, according to Dr. Horn, is allied to C. aurulenta 

 and C. octogramma. From the former it differs by its bright green 

 labrum and the shorter and broader pronotum, which has the sides 

 rounded, and also by the colour of the elytra ; from the latter it 

 may be known by the much finer striation of the head and the 

 longer and narrower pronotum, which has the sides less rounded ; 

 the elytra also are much more elongate, with the sides mort- 

 parallel. 



181 Cicindela octogramma, Chaud. 



Cicindela octogramma, Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1852, p. 4. 



Of about the same shape as 0. hcemorrhoidalis, but smaller. 

 Labrum, clypeus and front of head metallic blue or violaceous; head 

 and pronotum dull metallic, greenish and coppery, with the sides 

 narrowly brighter, sculpture very fine ; pronotum transverse, 

 distinctly broader in the middle than the head, narrowed behind, 

 subcordiform, with a few fugitive setae at the sides ; elytra dull, 

 black, or with a very slight greenish reflection, extreme base bright 

 metallic green, upper surface smooth and dull ; at the shoulder 

 there is a yellow spot, and on each elytron three others, about 



Fig. 172. — Cicin del a fabricii. 



