CICINDELi* 



423 



whitish testaceous, and by the less rounded sides and coarser sculp- 

 ture of thepronotum, which is much 

 less constricted at the base; labnim 

 large, more or less rounded, testa- 

 ceous, with the anterior margin 

 narrowly dark ; head and pronotiim 

 dark, with coppery and. violaceous 

 reflections ; the former excavate 

 and strongly striate between the 

 eyes, very finely sculptured behind ; 

 pronotum subquadrate, with the 

 sides almost straight, very slightly 

 narrowed behind, moderately and 

 strongly asperately sculptured, not 

 constricted behind, impressions not 

 deep blue or violaceous, upper sur- 

 face setose at the sides and with 

 scattered setse on the disc (in fresh 

 specimens) ; elytra rather long in 

 proportion to their breadth, sub- 

 parallel-sided, very slightly, but 

 perceptibly, sinuate at the sides, 

 dark, velvety, with the margins 

 from scutellum to apex white, and 

 emitting at intervals short blunt 

 on each side, as shown in the 



Fig. 186. — Oicindela fuUginosa. 



three 



or dentate processes, 

 figure ; there are also variable spots on each side of the 

 suture, and the central dentate marking is sometimes recurved 

 and meets one of these, forming the inverted V-shaped mark so 

 characteristic in the itnclula fa-group ; legs metallic, green blue or 

 coppery, trochanters clear red ; underside metallic, sides of abdo- 

 men thickly pubescent, episterna rather scantily pubescent, geme 

 bare. 



Lewjtli 9-10 millim. 



Ceylon; Burma: Teinzo, Bhamo, Pegu; Malay States; 

 Cambodia ; Cochin China ; Jaya ; Borneo. 



Group 24. 



Light-coloured species with dark antler-like markings (length 

 10-12| mm.); sides and more or less of the disc of the pronotum 

 setose ; underside thickly pubescent, episterna of metasternum 

 more scantily pubescent in the middle, genge bare, basal joints of 

 antennae setose ; posterior margin of the eyes with a tuft of seta?. 



I. Elytral markings making three connections 



with the sutural marking cancellata, Dej., p. 424. 



II. Elytral markings making only two con- 



nections with the sutural marking histrio. Tsch., p. 42o. 



