436 



CICINDELIDA. 



pronotum to the apex, with thick whitish pubescence, epipleurae 

 with light hairs ; legs very long, especially the hinder pair, partly 

 metallic and partly testaceous, femora much thickened at the base, 

 tibiae slightly thickened at the apex. 



Length 6-6| millim. 



Buema : Pegu. 



A scarce species, known from no other locality. The colour 

 appears to be variable and occasionally the margins of the elytra 

 are blue. 



Group 30. 



Small species (7^-9 mm.) with the elytra subparallel-sided and 

 usually subrectangular ; episterna of metasternum very scantily 

 pubescent or bare ; gense bare ; elytra unicolorous, or with white 

 markings at the margins only, or with the whole margins narrowly 

 white. 



I. Elytra depressed and dull, with the 



shoulders more marked. 



i. Pronotum broad, subquadrate, dull, 



with the sides straighter and al- 

 most parallel, extremely finely 

 sculptured ; elytra with a narrow 

 well defined, white border, the 



rest being unicolorous limosa, Saund., p. 436. 



ii. Pronotum much narrower, slightly 



longer than broad, rather shiny, 

 with the sculpture compara- 

 tively strong ; elytra with a hu- 

 meral spot, an elongate, broadly 

 triangular spot at the sides, 

 and the apical margin narrowly 

 white 



iii. Pronotum about as long as broad 



with the basal angles strongly 

 produced, finely but distinctly 

 sculptured ; elytra unicolorous . . 



II. Elytra convex and shiny, with the 



shoulders less marked ; pronotum 

 strongly rounded in front ; elytra 

 very rarely unicolorous (var. immar- 

 ginata, W. Horn), as a rule with 



the margins narrowly white gyllenhali, Dej., p. 438. 



andersoni, Gestro, p. 43^ 



malabarica, Maindr. Fleut >5> 

 [p. 438. 



211. Cicindela limosa, Saund. 



Cicindela limosa, Saunders, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1834, p. 64, pi. 7, 



fig. 6 ; Schmidt-Goebel, Faun. Col. Birm. 1846, p. 7. 

 Cicindela cinctella, Chevrolat, Le Nat. 1882, p. 73. 



A small species of a dull greenish bronze colour, with the elytra 

 subrectangular, much broader at the base than pronotum, with 

 the margins narrowly white, and the disc without markings and 



