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CICTNDELl DM. 



sided elytra, which are not sinuate at the sides, and dark trochan- 

 ters ; the head and pronotum are 

 greener and less coppery, and the 

 antennae have the last seven joints 

 red in the female ; the elytral mark- 

 ings are different, the humeral cres- 

 cent being much extended, pro- 

 ceeding from the scutellum almost 

 to the centre of the elytra, and 

 being often confluent with the 

 large oblique variable central patch ; 

 the apical patch, too, is broader ; 

 the ground-colour is brighter green 

 and the extreme margins only are 

 metallic ; occasionally, however, 

 brownish specimens occur; legs 

 metallic, more or less coppery red, 

 trochanters dark ; underside 

 greenish, cyaneous and violaceous, 

 Fig. 178.— Cicindela calligramma. sides of the abdomen thickly 



pubescent, episterna of prosternum 

 and metasternum, and the genae scantily pubescent, the episterna 

 of the metasternum being often almost or quite bare. 

 Length 15-16 millim. 



Ceylon; Madras : Trivandrum, Shimoga ; Bombay: Kanara. 

 Yar. confluens, nov. 



The shape of the elytral markings is very variable, especially of 

 the basal and central ones ; the light colour in some cases is more 

 or less confluent and occupies the greater part of the elytra (var. 

 signed, confluent., Chaudoir, Cat. Coll. 1865, p. 88) ; it occurs, 

 apparently, with the type-form. 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



1 90. Cicindela ceylonensis, TF. Horn. 



Cicindela ceylonensis, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1892, p. 87 ; 



id., op. cit. 1894, pi. iii, tig. 3. 

 Cicindela ceylonica, Fleutiaux (in error), Cat. Cic. 1892, p. 117. 

 Cicinclela ceylonetisis var. diversa, W. Horn, Spol. Zeyl. ii, 1904, pi. i, 



fig. 19. 



A black velvety species, with white elytral markings, apparently 

 very variable in size ; labrum large, white, broadly bordered with 

 black in front, with strong teeth ; head long, with the eyes not 

 very prominent, striate within the eyes, and finely sculptured 

 behind ; antennae stout, with the first four joints shining black ; 

 pronotum shorter than the head with the labrum, widest in front, 

 where it is almost as broad as the head with the eyes, gradually and 

 slightly narrowed in almost a straight line to the base ; there are 

 a few fugitive setae on the disc ; at each basal angle behind the 

 depression is a small raised shining callosity : elytra subparallel- 

 sided, with the sides slightly rounded, velvety black, hardly 



