. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. side a little beforethe apex. Length 15 millim. Burma : Maymyo (H. L. Andreives). 176. Cicindela bicolor, F. Cicindela bicolor, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. i, 1781, p. 283; Dejean, i, 1825, p. 43; id., op. cit. v, 1831, p. 209. Front parts green, finely and rugosely sculptured; head large,forehead broad between the eyes, antennae metallic green at base,ferruginous towards apex; pronotum about as long as head withoutthe labrum, transverse, subparallel-sided, slightly narrowed to thebase, with a few fugitive setae at the sides ;
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. side a little beforethe apex. Length 15 millim. Burma : Maymyo (H. L. Andreives). 176. Cicindela bicolor, F. Cicindela bicolor, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. i, 1781, p. 283; Dejean, i, 1825, p. 43; id., op. cit. v, 1831, p. 209. Front parts green, finely and rugosely sculptured; head large,forehead broad between the eyes, antennae metallic green at base,ferruginous towards apex; pronotum about as long as head withoutthe labrum, transverse, subparallel-sided, slightly narrowed to thebase, with a few fugitive setae at the sides ; elytra dark greenishcyaneous, or bluish, much more blue than the front parts, dull,with very fine sculpture, almost smooth, and without spots ;underside of the front parts violaceous or partly green, of theabdomen dark, with the apex and side margins reddish ; legs CIGTNBELA. 401 metallic; episterna of metasternum bare, except for a tuft ofwhite hairs at the inner posterior corner, centre of metasternum,coxa?, and sides of abdomen scantily bat plainly Fig. 171.— Cieindela bicolor. Length 15-17 millim. Bombay : Poona ; Punjab : Simla; Bengal : Calcutta, Asansol,Maldah, Birbhum, Berhampur, Murshidabad, Sahibganj; Assam :Khasi Hills. On the young rice-fields ( Westermann). 177. Cieindela mariae, Gestro. Cieindela marice, Gestro, Ann. Mus. Genova, 1898, p. 361. A moderate-sized, parallel-sided, dark species with yellowmarkings on the elytra ; head and pronotum more or less ob-scurely coppery or greenish with coppery reflections, blue or greenat the sides ; the former broad and flat between the eyes, whichare moderately prominent, distinctly striated, - and very finelysculptured behind; labrum testaceous, with a larger or smallerdark margin, the testaceous colour being sometimes reduced to aspot; pronotum subquadrate in the male, slightly transverse andnarrower behind in the female, closely sculptured, wilh scantypubescence on the sides of the upper surface ; elytra b
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