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SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
THE CICINDELID/E OF CEYLON. 
By Dr. Walther Horn, M.D. 
( Berlin). 
With one Plate. 
MONG the collection of Cicindelidae or Tiger-beetles recently 
sent to me from the Colombo Museum for revision I was 
quite astonished to find a good many species not yet known from 
the Island of Ceylon, and also one new species and a new sub¬ 
species. I had already prepared descriptions of another new 
species and two new sub-species in my own collection, and now 
think it best to give a complete list and synopsis of all Ceylon 
species belonging to this family. Notwithstanding the fact that 
the Cicindelid fauna of Ceylon must pass as being relatively very 
well known, almost as thoroughly, for instance, as the corres¬ 
ponding faunas of Java and Sumatra, yet it is probable that more 
species still remain to be recorded from Ceylon. 
In future a particular interest should be taken in the small 
group represented by the species Gicindela willeyi , waterhousei , 
qanglbaueri , and dormeri , the males of which especially have been 
as yet but little studied. 
A.— ClCINDELIDiE ALOCOSTERNALI^E, W. Horn. 
Entom. Nachr., 1900. p. 214. 
CollyR iDiE, Chaud. 
Bull. Mosc., 1860, pp. 270 and 283. 
I.— Collyris, Fabr. 
Syst. El. I., 1801, p. 226. 
Sub-gen, a. Archicollyris , W. Horn. 
Rev. Cic. Deutsche Ent. Zeitsc’hr., 1901, p. 43. 
1. A. dohrni, Chaud. 
Bull. Mosc., 1860, p. 286 ; Monogr. Ann. Soc. Fr. 64, p. 490. 
Locality: Eastern Province. 
