CICINDELIDAE (TIGER BEETLES) COLLECTED IN 
EASTERN NEW GUINEA, WITH DESCRIPTION OF 
A NEW SPECIES! 
By C. M. C. Brouerius van Nidek 
Vogelkersstraat 28, Bussum, Holland 
From material loaned to me by the Museum of Compara- 
tive Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., I have 
compiled the following list, with notes, of tiger beetles 
collected in New Guinea by P. J. Darlington, Jr. during 
the recent war.^ 
1. Cicindela tetrachoides Gestro 
Eight specimens collected at Dobodura, Papua. 
2. Cicindela darlingtoni n. sp. 
(Figs. 1-3, 6-7) 
Resembles C. latreillei Guer., but differs by larger scutel- 
lum, longer pronotum, more dense curly pubescence on the 
underside, and especially by the hairs on the side margin 
of the labrum and the row of stiff hairs on the middle tibia 
(Figs. 1, 2). Head of male green; labrum strongly pro- 
jecting, more rounded than in latreillei, yellow with dark 
margin, front margin with a small obtuse tooth at centre, 
side margin except anteriorly with a row of small hooked 
hairs; mandibles yellow, tips dark; palpi yellow, outer 
part of the last segment dark except at extreme tip. Head 
of female blackish; labrum black with green luster. Anten- 
nae with first 4 segments dark metallic, the rest pubescent. 
Prothorax more elongate than in latreillei, constricted near 
the base, with distinct but fine median line, and slightly 
transversely striated; apical edge with fine yellow hairs, 
^Published with a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 
Harvard College. 
^Two additional species, Caledonomorpha milneana and Prothyma 
papua, have been described by Dr. Darlington in Psyche, Vol. 54, 1947, 
pp. 241-245. Darlington’s collecting localities are shown on his sketch 
map in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Vol. 107, 
1952, p. 93. 
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