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cicindelim:. 



Genus APTEROESSA. 



Cicindela, Fafcricius, Sp. Ins. i, 1781, p. 282 (ex parte). 

 Apteroessa, Hope, Col. Man. ii, 1838, p. 169, pi. ii, fig. 1. 



Type, Cicindela grossa, F. 



The single species belonging to this genus is characterized by 

 being apterous and by its thick clumsy 

 and heavy form, in which it differs 

 from any species of the genus Cicin- 

 dela. Unfortunately, as Dr. Horn ob- 

 serves (Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1899, 

 p. 47), there is not an even mode- 

 rately good example in existence; all 

 that are known at present are the 

 Fabrician type in the British Museum, 

 from which the description given 

 below is taken, and which is well 

 figured as regards outline by Westwood, 

 in Hope's Manual (I. c. supra) ; an 

 example without extremities in Dr. 

 Horn's collection ; and the abdomen 

 / \ of a third in the Berlin Museum. It 



is probably extremely local, and it is 

 Fig. 198.— Apteroessa grossa. qu i te possible that some collector may 



turn it up in numbers somewhere in 

 the district adjoining the Coromandel Coast, if this be the true 

 locality. 



215. Apteroessa grossa, F. 



Cicindela grossa, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. i, 1781, p. 282. 

 Apteroessa grossa, Hope, Col. Man. ii, 1838, p. 169, pi. ii, fig. 1. 



A large, strongly and coarsely built species, black, with yellow 

 markings on the elytra ; labrum short, yellow, bluntly dentate, 

 with the margins dark and with two dark spots touching the basal 

 margin; mandibles large, strong, pale, with the teeth, tips and 

 outer edge dark; antenna) (in the specimen described) almost 

 entirely wanting, but apparently stout and dark ; head very large, 

 eyes small and not very prominent, with strongly raised dark inner 

 borders, space between the eyes flat and rugosely sculptured, oc- 

 ciput also coarsely sculptured ; near the eyes are some coarse 

 white seta? ; pronotum in front about as broad as the head with 

 the eyes, with the sides gradually rounded, very slightly widened 

 iu front and then narrowed rather strongly at the base, very 

 coarsely sculptured, especially in front, with strong depressions in 

 front and behind (the anterior depression being situated at some 

 distance from the margin, very strong, and quite cutting off the 

 front portion), central line feebly marked ; at the sides there are 



