CICINDELA. 



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middle to the apex being black; the sculpture of the elytra 

 moreover, though very fine, is much more evident, and the X 

 formed by the yellow colour is very distinct and lighter than in 

 most specimens of the typical form. 



Length 20 millim. 



"India." 



Type in the British Museum. 



Mr. H. E. Andrewes possesses a specimen of an undescribed 

 variety from Poona. 



184. Cicindela princeps, Vig. 



Cicindela princeps, Vigors, Journ. Zool. i, 1825, p. 413, pi. 15, fig. 

 Cicindela princeps var. ducalis, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeits 



.1. 



Zeitschr. 



1897, p. 294. 



Labrum black with a large testaceous patch, mandibles testaceous 

 with the margins, and the apex broauly, black; antennae dark, stout, 



maxillary palpi dark, labial 

 palpi yellow, with the apex 

 black ; head and pronotum of 

 about equal length, coarsely 

 sculptured, the former irregu- 

 larly striate inside the eyes, 

 the latter about as long as 

 broad, distinctly narrower and 

 longer in proportion than in 

 the preceding species, con- 

 stricted in front and behind, 

 with the sides very slightly 

 rounded ; elytra subparallel- 

 sided, or slightly widened 

 behind, rather flat, almost 

 smooth, dull and velvety, 

 black, with a large humeral 

 patch, emarginate internally 

 m the centre, and with a 

 broad yellow band at about 

 middle, almost joining the 

 apical yellow marking, which 

 is somewhat broad : the in- 

 terruption by the black patch 

 is greater in some specimens 

 than in others ; suture very narrowly, and extreme margins, 

 black ; legs and underside black, the latter with very fugitive 

 pubescence on the coxsb and metasternum (in the type-specimen 

 this is almost or quite rubbed off') ; episterna of metasternum bare, 

 slightly sculptured. 

 Length 19-20 millim. 

 Madras (?) ; Central India. 

 Type in the British Museum. 



The above description is taken from Vigors's type. 



Cicindela princeps. 



