CI60TDELA. 



419 



. Elytra broader, with the sculpture very fine, 

 scarcely traceable ; size considerably larger 

 (10-15 mm.), 

 i. Elytra more parallel-sided, with the white 

 marking-s conspicuous, the lateral ones 

 being - broad and almost or quite con- 



tinuous striolata,) 111., p. 419. 



ii. Elytra more rounded at the sides, with the 

 markings broken and much reduced. 



1. Pronotum distinctly sculptured, with the 



sides more rounded ; length 10-18 mm. striolata var. lineifrons, 



2. Pronotum very finely sculptured, with Chaud., p. 421. 



the sides almost straight ; length 15 



mm striolata var. parvi- 



maculata, nov., p. 421. 



II. Elytra narrower, with the sculpture more [p. 422. 



evident; size much smaller (8 mm.) atkinsoni, Gestro, 



0. striolata bears a strong relation to C. oberthuri and C. inter- 

 media, and this group therefore has strong affinities to group 12. 



195. Cicindela striolata, III. 



Cicindela striolata, Illiger, Wiegm. Arch, i, 1800, p. 114. 

 Cicindela semivittata, Fabricius, Syst. El. 1801, p. 237; Schmidt- 



Goebel, Faun. Col. Birm. 1846, p. 3, pi. i, fig. 4. 

 Cicindela viyorsi, Dejean, Spec. Col. y, 1831, p. 223. 

 Cicindela lineifrons, Chaudoir, Cat. Col. 1865, p. G2. 



A very widely spread species that varies very considerably as 

 regards size and markings ; head and pronotum with a more or 

 less distinct coppery reflection, with the sides bright green and 

 coppery, and with two short blue lines (not always evident) between 

 the eyes; labrum large, testaceous, with or without dark anterior 

 margin ; head rather plainly striated between the eyes, which are 

 rather strongly prominent, very finely sculptured behind; pronotum 

 about as long as broad, with the sides more or less rounded, with 

 distinct, but short and scanty, setse at the sides, very finely sculp- 

 tured, constricted in front and behind : elytra long, parallel-sided, 

 with very variable whitish or yellowish markings, consisting, as a 

 rule, of a long white stripe extending from the shoulders nearly to 

 the apex and parallel w T ith the margins, and inside it several small 

 spots and patches ; the long stripe, however, is often broken and 

 irregular, but it can usually be traced ; the smaller patches are 

 very variable and in a long series range from being very conspicuous 

 to being almost entirely absent ; the ground-colour of the elytra 

 is velvety black, and there is hardly a trace of sculpture ; the 

 shoulders are well marked; legs and underside metallic, coppery, 

 green, and cyaneous; sides of abdomen, except towards apex, pubes- 

 cent; episterna of metasternum and prosternum almost bare; gense, 

 as a rule, quite bare, occasionally with a few very scanty hairs. 



Length 10-15 inillim 



2 e 2 



