416 



CICIXDELIDJE. 



417. 



ii. Length 12-13 mm. ; pronotum 

 longer than broad, narrower; 

 elytral spots less regular and less 

 numerous ; episterna of meta- 

 sternum almost covered with 



pubescence multigtdtata, Dej., p. 



II. Elytra obscure dark green or almost 

 black, with linear, straight or 

 slightly curved yellow or yellowish 

 white markings, 

 i. Gen?e pubescent ; middle band of 



the elytra longer, curved vittigera, Dej., p. 417. 



ii. Gense bare; middle band of the 



elytra shortened and straighter. . lefroyi, W. Horn, p. 418. 



191. Cicindela vigintiguttata, Hbst. 



Cicindela vigintiguttata, Herbst, Kafer, x, 1806, p. 174, pi. 179, fig. 9 ; 

 Dejean, Spec. Col. i, 182-3, p. 108. 



A moderate-sized dark species, usually with ten white markings 

 on each elytron ; labrum short, truncate, whitish testaceous, man- 

 dibles much exposed, white, with the 

 tips broadly black ; head and pro- 

 notum dark metallic, with two stripes 

 between the eyes, and the sides bright 

 blue and green, sometimes more or 

 less coppery ; head very finely sculp- 

 tured, with a few slight striae near the 

 eyes ; pronotum subquadrate, with the 

 sides nearly straight, or very slightly 

 rounded, plainly setose at the sides ; 

 elytra subparallel- sided in the male, 

 slightly widened behind in the female, 

 black, black-green, or slightly cya- 

 neous, each with a small, white humeral 

 crescent, a longitudinal patch near the 

 scutellum, an apical spot, and seven 

 other spots, three near the suture, two 

 on the disc, and two near the margins ; 

 these vary in size and shape, but 

 appear not to be confluent ; legs long, 

 metallic green and violaceous, tro- 

 chanters pitchy ; underside green and 

 violaceous, almost completely covered, 

 except just in the middle, with thick whitish tomentose pub- 

 escence ; gen ce thickly pubescent. 

 Length 15^-16 millira. 



Bengal : Berhampur, Dacca, Murshidabad, Bajmahal, Birbhum, 

 Damukdia, Sara Ghat ; Sikkim : Kurseong, Mungphu, Pankabari • 

 Bhutan. 



On young rice-fields ( Westermann) ; Dr. Annandale records the 

 species from a flooded millet field at the edge of the River Ganges. 



Fig. 180 .— Cicindela 

 vigintiguttata. 



