CICINDELA. 



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colour being produced into a broad triangular dentate patch behind 

 the middle, and a broad rounded patch before the apex, the apical 

 portion being really, as in C. biramosa, an exaggerated form of the 

 lunule so common iu the genus ; extreme side-margins metallic ; 

 legs green ; trochanters red ; apex of abdomen reddish testaceous ; 

 underside coppery green in front, violaceous behind, the sides, 

 including all the episterna, clothed with thick tomentose 

 pubescence, genae bare. 

 Length 14-16 millim. 



Slnd : Karachi, Island of Kiamari, on clayey sands (Maindron) ; 

 Baluchistan. 



208. Cicindela bellana, W, Rom. 



Cicindela bellana, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zit. 1905, p. 63. 

 Cicindela bellana ab. nuda, W. Horn, Syst. Ind. Cicind. (Feb. 190o) r 

 p. 38, note. 



This species is intermediate between C. biramosa and C. main- 

 droni; it differs from C. maindroni in being smaller, with the 

 prouotum quite differently shaped and more distinctly sculptured ; 

 in the last-named species the base is almost broader than the apex, 

 whereas in C. bellana it has the sides rounded and plainly nar- 

 rowed and constricted at base ; the broad light margins of the 

 elytra are more irregular, being produced in front to the suture, 

 and the apical patch is not curved ; the dark markings, which 

 are bronze-green, or sometimes bright blue, approach much 

 nearer the margin in two places, and almost meet it behind ; the 

 trochanters, moreover, are metallic ; in the shape of the head and 

 eyes and in the pubescence of the underside it agrees with 

 C. maindroni, and differs from C. biramosa, from which it may 

 further be distinguished by the more cordate and more evidently 

 sculptured pronotum and much more strongly punctured elytra. 

 It is a very distinct and handsome species, especially the blue 

 variety. 



Lenyth 12-14 millim. 



Sind : Karachi {Bell) • Peesia : Fao (TBrit. Mus.). 



Var. nuda, W. Horn. 



This variety has the upper surface entirely bronze-green, without 

 or with hardly any testaceous markings ; the specimens I have 

 seen are entirely unicolorous. 



Length 13 millim. 



Sind : Karachi {Bell). 



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