. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. e. Cicindela chloris, Hope, Grays Zool. Miscell. 1831, p. himaleyica, Kedtenbacher, Hugels Kaschmir, iv, 2,1848,p. 497, pi. 23, tig. 1. A bright green species; labrum testaceous; mandibles green, testaceous at base; clypeusand head at base of antennaethickly pubescent; head striai ebetween eyes, with a few whitehairs on the surface, which areoften rubbed off; pronotumgreen, with the sides and de-pressions blue or violaceous,slightly transverse, finely ru-gose, with thick and coarsepubescence at the sides ;elytra m
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. e. Cicindela chloris, Hope, Grays Zool. Miscell. 1831, p. himaleyica, Kedtenbacher, Hugels Kaschmir, iv, 2,1848,p. 497, pi. 23, tig. 1. A bright green species; labrum testaceous; mandibles green, testaceous at base; clypeusand head at base of antennaethickly pubescent; head striai ebetween eyes, with a few whitehairs on the surface, which areoften rubbed off; pronotumgreen, with the sides and de-pressions blue or violaceous,slightly transverse, finely ru-gose, with thick and coarsepubescence at the sides ;elytra much broader thanpronotum, dull, grauulose andshagreened throughout, withtraces of two impressions oneach between shoulder andsuture, wider in the femalethan in the male, and lessabruptly narrowed beforeapex, with the sutural anglemuch more strongly pro-Fig. 165.—Cicindela chloris. duced; disc and shoulders immaculate; at the marginabout the middle there are two white spots joined by a thin line,very rarely broken, and before the apex a more or less comma-shaped. CICINDELA. 377 spot; legs metallic ; underside green and violaceous, with thewhole of the sides of the abdomen, the episterna and the gensethickly clothed with long white coarse 114-12 millim. Kashmir : Gilgit; Sikkim : Bungpo (Hodgart) ; Nepal :Soondrijal, Benikhola, Kumdhik, Ghurwal District, Hathikund,and Jumnagwar; United Provinces : Naini Tal District,Jalaban, Kumaon (Ammangarh and Patair). Type in the British Museum ; that of himaleyica in the ViennaMuseum. There is considerable confusion as to this insect, as Hopes type(so labelled) in the Oxford Museum is plainly or one ofits varieties, whereas the type in the British Museum, whichMr. Arrow tells me is the real type (from the Hardvvicke col-lection), is the insect described above. 156. Cicindela funerea, McL. Cicindela funerea, McLeay, Ann. Jav. 1825, p. 12. Cicindela marginepunctata. Dejean, Spec. Col. ii, 1820, p. 428. Cicindela a
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