CICINDELA. 



205. Cicindela limbata, Schm.-Goeb. 



Cicindela limbata, Schmidt-Goebel, Faun. Col. Birm. 1840, p. 7. 



Of the size of C. biramosa, but with the elytra less parallel-sided, 

 upperside bronze-green, underside violaceous ; labruni testaceous ; 

 head finely rugose, bright green at the sides, eyes very large ; 

 pronotum slightly transverse, almost cylindrical, granulose ; elytra 

 bronze green, with a broad white margin ; on the green portion is 

 an interrupted row of large punctures, and the white edge is finely 

 punctured ; underside violaceous, with the sides thickly pubescent ; 

 legs bronze green. 



Length 13 millim. 



Burma. 



206. Cicindela biramosa, F. 



Cicindela biramosa, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. i, 1781, p. 280 ; Dejean, 



Spec. Col. i, 1825, p. 183. 

 Cicindela tridentata, Thunberg, Nov. Ins. Sp. 1784, p. 20, fig. 40. 

 Cicindela biramosa var. contractu, Fleutiaux, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 



1893, p. 488. 

 Cicindela biramosa var. dilatata, Fleutiaux, 1. c. 



Very variable in size and extent of markings, shining and 

 smooth, bronze or dark bronze-green with a coppery reflection, 

 which is especially noticeable on the head and pronotum ; labrum 

 testaceous, head finely striated within the eyes, which are large 

 and prominent ; pronotum somewhat variable in length, as a rule 

 about as long as broad, with the sides gently rounded, very finely 

 sculptured, central line distinct but not strongly marked ; elytra 

 very shiny, sparsely sculptured, more distinctly in front than 

 behind, with an irregular row of larger punctures near the suture, 

 dark, with the margins more or less broadly white from the 

 shoulder to the apex ; from the margin at about the middle pro- 

 ceeds a blunt transverse spot, which reaches to about the middle 

 of the disc, and the hinder white portion is thickened at its apex, 

 the space forming a lunule continuing the margin ; legs coppery 

 and green, trochanters dark, metallic ; underside coppery, green and 

 violaceous, almost bare in the centre, with somewhat thick, but 

 very fugitive pubescence at the sides ; genae bare ; sides of pro- 

 sternum with large punctures. 

 Length 10-14 millim. 



Ceylon and Southern India, generally distributed ; Bengal : 

 Hugh River, Orissa, Chittagong, Sunderbunds ; Andaman Is. ; 

 Burma; Tenasserim ; Malacca ; China. 



Many varieties occur. M. Fleutiaux (I. c.) says that the speci- 

 men from Tenasserim has the white markings inconspicuous and 

 he proposes to call it var. contracta, this form having also occurred 



