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CICINDELIDVE. 



209. Cicindela quadrilineata, F. 



Cicindela quadrilineata, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. i, 1781, p. 285 ; Olivier, 

 Ent. ii, 1790, p. 25, pi. i, figs. 4 & 5: Dejean, Spec. Col. i, 1825, 

 p. 132. 



Cicindela renei, W. Horn, Ann. Mus. Genova, xxxvii, p. 273. 



A large, conspicuous, and well known species. Labrum short;, 

 testaceous, leaving a great part of the mandibles (which are tes- 



teceous, with black apex) exposed ; 

 maxillary palpi bright green, testaceous 

 in the middle, labial palpi testaceous, 

 last joint bright green ; head dull cop- 

 pery, brighter at the sides, excavate and 

 very finely striated between the eyes, 

 which are large and prominent ; pro- 

 notum coppery, transverse, rounded 

 at the sides, with strongly marked 

 impressions in front and behind, and 

 impressions at the sides joining these, 

 formed by the raised edge of the pro- 

 sternum, which is almost level with the 

 disc of the pronotum and covered with 

 long white setae ; disc very finely 

 sculptured, with the central line not 

 strongly marked ; elytra long, rather 

 broad, subparallel-sided, very gently 

 rounded, with the oblique margin at 

 the apex very plainly serrulate, the 

 suture metallic, with a dark bronze 

 Fig. 194.— Cicindela quadri- longitudinal stripe on each side of it 

 llneata ' and attached to it (sometimes almost 



black, sometimes coppery), reaching 

 from the base nearly to the apex, and including the scutellum ; 

 on the disc of each there is another stripe of the same descrip- 

 tion, reaching from the base, but not quite touching it, nearly to 

 the apex, and either joining or separate from the apex of the 

 sutural band ; as a rule they are joined and the outer band is 

 notched a little before the apex, but they are variable in size and 

 regularity ; extreme margins testaceous, concolorous with the 

 ground-colour ; upper surface distinctly punctured, apical sutural 

 angle with a sharp spine in both sexes ; legs green and coppery, 

 trochanters metallic ; underside coppery, with the sides, including 

 all the episterna, thickly pubescent, sides of pronotum with large 

 punctures. 



Length 15-17 niillim. 



This species is a very characteristic Indian beetle and apparently 

 occurs from Ceylon to North India ; M. Maindron says (Ciein- 

 delides de Sind, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1899, p. 381) that he has 

 found it from Tenasserim to the North, and that it is common on 

 the sands of Manorah near Karachi, where it has been taken by 



