430 



CICINDELIDJE. 



bluntly pointed behind, apical sutural angle with a sharp spine, the 

 suture broadly dark, and with two markings on each proceeding 

 from this, one like an inverted mallet joined to the suture by 

 its head (sometimes separated from the suture), and the other 

 hatchet-shaped, joined to a process of the suture by the handle, 

 extreme margins white, concolorous with the elytra ; legs 

 metallic, trochanters and apex of abdomen red ; underside 

 mostly bare, dark metallic, all the episterna covered with white 

 pubescence, and the gense bare. 

 Length 8 millim. 



Bengal : Calcutta (Heifer) * ; Sind: Karachi (Bell Sf Shopland). 



8chmidt-Goebel describes the species in his ' Coleoptera of 

 Burma,' but gives Cossipour, near Calcutta, as the only locality. 

 The species is very local, and appears to have been met with 

 very rarely. 



Group 28. 



A very distinct group, with the whole upper surface smooth, 

 glabrous and shining, and the underside clothed with moderate or 

 thick pubescence ; the genae are bare ; the sides of the pronotum 

 proper are not setose, but the prosternum, which is more or less 

 thickly setose, is sometimes raised at the sides and displays the 

 setae from above. 



I. Pronotum about as long as broad, or 

 slightly transverse, subcylindrical. 

 i. Elytra' less parallel-sided, bronze green 



with a broad white margin limbata, 



ii. Elytra more parallel-sided, very varia- 



ble in markings biramosa, F., p 



II. Pronotum distinctly transverse. 



Schm.-Goeb., 



[p. 431. 

 431." 



7naindroni i W . Horn, p. 432. 



Pronotum with the sides straight and 

 parallel : elytra bronze green with a 

 broad irregular testaceous margin . . 

 Pronotum with the sides more or less 

 rounded. 



1. Elytra shorter and less parallel- 



sided, slightly widened behind, 

 bright blue or bronze, with a very 

 irregular broad testaceous margin ; 

 head and pronotum rather strongly 

 sculptured, the latter more con- 

 tracted behind bdlana, W. Horn, p. 433. 



2. Elytra longer and more parallel- 



sided, not widened behind, with 

 alternate bronze and testaceous 

 longitudinal stripes, reaching from 

 base to apex ; head and pronotum 

 very finely sculptured, the latter 



scarcely contracted behind quadrilineata, p. 434. 



* Heifer's localities appear to be somewhat doubtful. 



