428 



CICIXDELIDJE. 



the former not, or very finely, striate within the eyes, which have 

 only a narrow space between them in front ; 

 pronotum subquadrate, with the sides very 

 slightly rounded, finely sculptured ; elytra 

 with the sides gently rounded, dull white, 

 with dark linear markings, which do not 

 touch either the base, apex or margins, 

 and take the form of a line, running 

 parallel with the suture (which is narrowly 

 dark), from which spring three more or 

 less irregular oblique stripes, parallel with 

 one another, and starting one from the 

 apex, one from behind the middle and the 

 other from before the middle; the pos- 

 terior one is notched behind anU often it 

 is separated altogether from the longi- 

 tudinal stripe, with the dilated end of 

 which it forms a separate marking; the 

 extreme margins are coppery ; legs metallic 

 with white pubescence, femora thickly 

 pubescent, trochanters clear red ; under- 

 side in fresh specimens, including the gense, entirely clothed 

 (except just under the head and a small patch in the centre) with 

 thick white tomentose pubescence, which completely hides the 

 metallic colour ; the pubescence is often rubbed on the centre of 

 the abdomen and other parts, but in fresh specimens is very 

 striking. 



Length 13-16 millim. 



Bengal : Chota Xagpur, Asansol, Orissa ; Sikkim : Darjiling. 

 On sand dunes in Orissa, not on the sea-shore (Annandale). 



Fig. 191. — Cicindela 

 albina. 



Gnorr 27. 



Very distinct insects, with the elytra ovate ; disc of the 

 pronotum and the gense bare and shining; prosternum and epi- 

 sterna of the metasternum with very long white pubescence, 

 projecting at the sides of the former ; abdomen bare and shining. 



I. Size much larger (11-12 mm.) ; elytra 

 gradually and rather strongly nar- 

 rowed from behind middle to base, 



broadest behind middle ornata, Fleut., p. 428. 



II. Size much smaller (8 mm.); elytra 



scarcely narrowed in front, broadest [p. 429. 



at about the middle copulata, Schm.-Goeb., 



203. Cicindela ornata, Fleut. 



Cicindela ornata, Fleutiau? 

 Maindron, Ann. Soc. En1 



Much larger than the succeeding species, from which it is very 



Cicindela ornata, Fleutiaux, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1878, p. 146; 

 Maindron, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1899, p. 383. 



