CICINDELA. 



413 



Bengal: Chota Nagpur (Cardon), Eanchi, Lohardaga ; 

 Madras : Shimoga (Maiudron). 



188. Cicindela dives, Gory. 



Cicindela dives, Gory, Mag. Zool. 1833, p. 97. 



A very conspicuous species ; head and pronotum greenish witli 

 the borders more or less irregularly fiery coppery red, which colour 

 sometimes spreads on to the disc; labrum large, testaceous, 

 narrowly dark in front ; head distinctly striated within the eyes, 



which are moderately prominent, 

 hinder part roughly and closely 

 sculptured, antennae stout with 

 the first four joints metallic ; pro- 

 notum about as long as broad, 

 with fugitive setae at the sides, 

 coarsely and asperately punctured, 

 broadest in front and very gradu- 

 ally narrowed to the base ; scu- 

 tellum red; elytra distinctly 

 widened behind, and with the 

 outline gently sinuate, velvety, 

 with very tine, often obsolete, 

 punctation in front, of a lighter 

 or darker green colour, with a 

 yellow oblique patch at the 

 shoulder, and another patch, 

 almost straight, just behind the 

 middle, both nearly reaching the 

 Fig. 177.— Cicindela dives. suture, and a third at the apex 



touching or almost touching the 

 sutural angle, the elytra thus presenting a banded appearance : 

 the extreme sides and margins are metallic red or violet red ; legs 

 coppery -red, trochanters red ; underside coppery, abdomen vio- 

 laceous ; the whole of the sides and the gense are pubescent ; the 

 episterna of the metasternum, however, are more scantily furuished 

 with hairs and are sometimes almost bare. 

 Length 15-17 millim. 



Sikkim; Bengal: Central India : Mhow; Bombay: Kanara, 

 Belgaum ; Madras : Mysore. 



189. Cicindela calligramma, Schaum, 



Cicindela calligramma , Schaum, Berlin. Ent. Zeit. 1861, p. 69, ph 1 B, 

 fig. 1. 



Cicindela kraatzi, TV. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1894, p. 172. 



Very like the preceding species superficially, but easily known by 

 its distinctly transverse pronotum, less prominent eyes, more parallel- 



