CICIISXELA. 



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distinct. Labrum large, clear white ; head and pronotum brilliant 



coppery red, the former some- 

 what excavate and finely striated 

 between the eyes, the latter sub- 

 qnadrate, rather longer than 

 broad, very finely sculptured, 

 with a thick frill of long setae 

 projecting from the sides of the 

 presternum, which will at once 

 distinguish the species ; there 

 are also short setse at the apical 

 margin ; elytra subovate, widened 

 behind, very finely and closely, 

 but quite perceptibly, punctured, 

 with the suture broadly coppery 

 until behind the middle, where 

 the colour contracts for a short 

 distance and from its apex pro- 

 ceeds an oblique hatchet- shaped 

 marking ; on the front of the 

 disc is a linear coppery marking, 

 reflexed at its apex towards the 

 Yig. 192. — Cicindela omata. margins; the extreme margins 



are white, concolorous with the 

 elytra; legs long, metallic, trochanters metallic; underside much 

 as in the succeeding species, with all the episterna pubescent and 

 the gense bare. 



Length 11-12 millim. 



Sind : Karachi, on the sands of Manorah (Shopland). 

 Extremely local, like the succeeding species, but not uncommon 

 where it occurs. 



201 



Cicindela copulata, Schm.-Goeb. 



Cicindela copulata, Sckmidt-Uoebel, Faun. Col. Birm. 1846, p. 0. 



A very pretty and distinct 'little species. 

 Labrum testaceous ; head metallic, without 

 pubescence, brilliantly red and very finely 

 striated below the eyes, very finely sculp- 

 tured in the middle and behind ; eyes 

 rather prominent ; pronotum narrow, 

 subcylindrical, about as long as broad, 

 coppery, finely sculptured, with the central 

 line slightly marked, disc bar 3 ; on the 

 anterior and posterior margins are thick 

 rows of very short seta?, and from the 

 upper edge of the prosternum projects 

 a border of long seta?, which appear 

 to belong to the pronotum ; scutellum 

 193.— Cicindela coppery ; elytra smooth and rather shiny, 

 copulata. with extremely fine sculpture, ovate, 



