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CICINDELIDJE, 



in Eangoon. The Ceylon examples, however, have the white 

 markings much developed and for these he proposes the name of 

 var. dilatata. The species appears to be found on or near the sea- 

 coast, and not in forests ; Heifer once found it in great abundance 

 on the banks of the Hugli. 



Mr. Annandale says of this common Indian insect (Annotated 

 List of Insects in the Indian Museum, i, p. 30) : — " I have only 

 seen this beetle on the sea-shore, but wherever I have seen it, 

 it has been extremely common. This is the case at Puri on the 

 Orissa coast, at Pamben, on Kaneswarem Island (Madura district, 

 Madras), at Trivandrum and at Srayikad, on the Travancore coast. 

 At none of these places did I ever meet with it at more than two 

 hundred yards from the edge of the sea. At Trivandrum it was 

 replaced in a very striking manner round the pools of rain-water 

 just above the beach by C. sumatrensis, while at Balighai, near 

 Puri, the same was the case, except that the landward species was 

 there C. cancellata. C. biramosa does not occur, however, on every 

 sandy beach within its limits of distribution, although all the places 

 at which I have seen it have been of this nature. A careful search, 

 conducted for several hours, at Verlakai, between Srayikad and 

 Trivandrum, did not enable me to see a single specimen. C. bi- 

 ramosa is very active on the wing and is frequently mistaken for a 

 digging-wasp. Apparently it flies by night as well as by day, for 

 a considerable number of individuals flew to my lantern on the 

 shore at Srayikad after dark. At Pamben J. saw many individuals 

 being captured and devoured by an Asilid fly. The food of the 

 species seems to consist largely of insects which have fallen 

 into the sea, or live naturally on the surface, and are washed 

 ashore." 



207. Cicindela maindroni, IT. Horn. 



Cicindela maindroni, W. Horn, Ent. Nachr. 1897, p. 98. 



This is a much larger species than C. biramosa, to which it is 

 closely allied, although it appears to be most nearly related to the 

 Abyssinian species C. riippeli, Guer. Labrum large, somewhat 

 produced in front, white with the anterior margin very narrowly 

 dark ; clypeus, gense and front of head shining green ; head and 

 pronotum dark greenish bronze, with more or less distinct coppery 

 reflections, the former excavate between the eyes, which are very 

 large ; striation and sculpture very tine ; pronotum subquadrate 

 slightly transverse, with rows of very short setae in front and 

 behind, very finely sculptured, central line very slightly marked, 

 sides almost straight and not rounded and narrowed behind as in 

 C. biramosa; elytra broad, ample, slightly widened behind, closely 

 and finely, but distinctly, sculptured, with an irregular row of 

 larger punctures near the suture, bronze-green, with the side 

 margins broadly testaceous from the shoulder to the apex, the 



