CIOHTDELA. 



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Group 19. 



Y T ery similar to the preceding group in general appearance, but 

 more parallel-sided and with the underside rather strongly pubes- 

 cent. The only species contained in this group is rather variable 

 as regards the prevalence of the dark or light colour; it is 

 allied to C. princeps, which it closely resembles. 



186. Cicindela shivah, Parry. 



Cicindela shivah, Parry, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1845, p. 84 ; id., 

 op. cit. 1848, p. 80, pi. 11, fig. 1. 



A comparatively long and narrow dull black species, with the 

 elytra long and parallel-sided, with yellow spots ; head broad, with 

 the eyes not very promiuent, impressed on front, finely striate 

 between the eyes and then rather strongly rugose; antenna? dark 

 at the base, then ringed with red, then darker red (this is variable) ; 

 pronotum transverse, deeply impressed in front, central line not 

 strongly marked, angled at the sides in front, and then gradually 

 narrowed to the base, which is very strongly impressed, upper 

 surface strongly rugose ; elytra distinctly but shallowly sculptured, 

 smooth and velvety, with a large spot at the shoulders, a large 

 transverse one about the middle, not quite reaching the suture, and 

 broadest at the margins, and a third, crescent-shaped, just at apex; 

 legs and underside black, the latter with the sterna and the sides 

 of the body rather strongly pubescent, the episterna of the meta- 

 sternum being bare except for a strong tuft of pubescence at the 

 inner posterior angles, and the genre being slightly pubescent. 



Length 17-18 millim. 



Nepal; Bombay: Kanara {Bell). 



Type in the British Museum (coll. jNevinson). 



The above description is taken from the type-specimen. In 

 the Oxford Museum there is a specimen labelled ericJisoni, Hope, 

 which Dr. Horn refers to this species, and in the British Museum is 

 an example l&belledjlavomaculata, Hope, which closely resembles it; 

 the anterior angulation of the pronotum and the sculpture are not 

 so marked as in the type, but the species appears to be somewhat 

 variable. 



Group 20. 



Rather conspicuous species ; pronotum with setaa at the sides 

 or on the disc, fugitive and sometimes very scanty ; metasternum 

 thickly pubescent, episterna of meta- and pro- sternum nearly bare 

 or very scantily pubescent, gense bare ; elytra with a crescent- 

 shaped white or yellow patch proceeding from the shoulders and 

 continued for a third or half of their length. 



Key to the Species. 



I. Pronotum transverse, about as broad 

 at base as at apex, 

 i. Setae at sides of pronotum short, re- 

 cumbent; elytra with a spot just 



behind middle (juttata, Wied., p. 412. 



