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CICINDELIDJE. 



198. Cicindela cancellata, Dej. 



Cicindela cancellata, Dejean, Spec. Col. i, 1825, p. 116 ; Schmidt- 



Goebel, Faun. Col. Firm. 1846, p. 5, pi. i, tip:. 4. 

 Var. Cicindela canclei, Chevrolat, Kev. Zool. 1845, p. 96. 



Head and pronotum coppery with various metallic reflections, 



and with the sides green or 

 bluish, the former shining, 

 excavate and strongly striated 

 between the eyes, which are 

 very prominent ; hinder part of 

 vertex very finely sculptured ; 

 labrum large, white, produced 

 in front; antennae with the 

 base metallic and the rest red- 

 dish, the first joint furnished 

 with a few white hairs ; there 

 are also a few white setae at the 

 inner posterior angle of the 

 eyes ; pronotum dull, finely 

 sculptured, subquadrate, with 

 the sides almost straight and 

 with scanty hairs on the 

 margins ; elytra subparallel- 

 sided, with the sides gently 

 rounded, strongly impressed 

 between the suture and 

 shoulders, whitish testaceous, 

 with large dark or dark green 

 branching antler-like markings 

 connected with the dark suture 

 and not reaching the margins ; 

 as the species is figured, it is not necessary to describe these in 

 detail, further than to say that they make three connections with 

 the suture ; the extreme edge of the elytra is dark ; there is no 

 evident sculpture but occasionally there are a few scattered dark 

 punctures before the apex ; legs and trochanters metallic ; under- 

 side violaceous, with the front parts coppery, sides of the abdomen 

 and the sterna densely pubescent, gense bare. 

 Length 10-11 millim. 



Madras : Tuticorin, Tra van core, Trichinopoli, Mahe, Mysore; 

 Bombay; Sind: Karachi; Bengal: Berhampur, Murshidabad, 

 Asansol, Kunbir, Kowatoli, Orissa; Sikkim : Kurseong, Sukna ; 

 Burma : Tharawaddy, jNorth Chin Hills, Arakan ; Cochix 

 China ; Java. 



The species closely resembles C. catena in general appearance 

 and is often mixed with it in collections. 



The var. canclei, Chevr., which only differs in having the pattern 

 of the markings broader, so that the elytra appear darker, has 

 been found in Pondicherry, Mahe Island, Trichinopoli and Hong- 

 Kong. 



Cicindela cancellata. 



