CICINDELA. 



425 



199. Cicindela histrio, Tsch. 



Cicindela (Chmtostyld) histrio, Tschitscherine, Horse Soc. Ent. Ross, 

 xxxvi, 1903, p. 16. 



This species very closely resembles C. cancellata and C. catena, 

 but may be at once known from both by the fact that the dark 

 markings of the elytra make only two con- 

 nections with the suture, and do not join 

 it before the middle, and by the red 

 trochanters, and also by the extreme 

 border of the elytra, which is dark be- 

 hind the shoulder and then reddish or 

 reddish testaceous, in both sexes ; in the 

 female the apical portion of this border 

 is violaceous ; the juxta-orbital striation 

 is also stronger than in either of the other 

 two species ; the sides of the brilliantly 

 metallic abdomen and sternum are for 

 the most part thickly tomentose, but the 

 sides of the episterna of the pro- and 

 meso-sternum are abruptly bare ; the 

 genae also are bare ; the episterna of the 

 metasternum are thickly tomentose ; the 

 last ventral segment or segments are 

 sometimes red ; there is a thick tuft of 

 hairs at the posterior inner angle of the 

 eyes, and the first joint of the antennas is 

 setose ; the pronotum is subquadrate, closely but distinctly sculp- 

 tured, dull, with the margins thickly setose, and with setaa on the 

 centre of the disc ; legs long, metallic, trochanters clear red. 

 Length KH-124 millim. 



Sind : Karachi, Manora ; Persia: Kborassan, Seistan, 



Bam pur. 



The species appears to have a very wide range and will probably 

 be found in many other localities ; it is so like the common 

 C. catena that it is very likely to be passed over. 



.188. — Cicindela Jtistrio. 



Group 25. 



Closely allied to the preceding, but with the gense distinctly 

 and rather strongly pubescent. 



I. Form broader ; pronotum broad, trans- 

 verse ; elytra with the light colour pre- 

 vailing catena, F., p. 426. 



II. Form narrower ; pronotum narrow, longer 

 than broad ; elytra with the dark colour 



prevailing striatifrons, Chanel., 



[p. 420. 



