TWO NEW TIGER BEETLES FROM NEW GUINEA 1 
By P. J. Darlington, Jr. 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 
The following two new species of the well-studied fam- 
ily Cicindelidae are of unusual interest. One is the 
second known species of Caledonomorpha, the only genus 
of the family confined to New Guinea. The other consti- 
tutes the first record for New Guinea of the widely dis- 
tributed genus Prothyma. 
Caledonomorpha milneana n. sp. (Fig. 1) 
Similar in generic characteristics, and nearly similar 
in form and general appearance, to Caledonomorpha jor- 
dani W. Horn (1897, pp. 270-271; 1910, p. 179, t. 11, f. 
12), but slightly smaller and less elongate. Color of body 
green; but labrum testaceous basally ; top of head (except 
labrum) and pronotum (except at sides) bluish purple; 
elytra brown with bluish or purplish reflections and green 
punctation, and each elytron with 3 small marginal or 
submarginal white spots, one humeral, one before middle, 
one ante-apical; abdomen piceous except green at sides 
anteriorly, testaceous apically. Surface of body includ- 
ing elytra with distinct, fine, isodiametric or slightly 
transverse, reticulate microsculpture. Mandibles piceous, 
except testaceous externally in basal half ; palpi testa- 
ceous, each with apical segment entirely or partly pice- 
ous; antennae piceous; legs piceous externally (with 
green reflections on basal half of femora), testaceous in- 
ternally. Head: with mandibles elongate, each with 4 
long teeth about as in jordani; mentum tooth long and 
acute ; labrum transverse, not quite so short as in jordani, 
irregularly truncate, with one seta each side and 2 near 
middle ; eyes prominent ; antennae very elongate ; palpi 
long, slender. Prothorax subquadrate, longer than wide, 
transversely impressed and slightly constricted near base 
and apex, with median longitudinal line less impressed; 
1 Published with a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 
Harvard College. 
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