. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. nia, Ohaud.,but has again been restored to Cicindela by Dr. W. Horn. Thepubescence of the underside is very easily rubbed off, and it wasonly after carefully examining several specimens that I came tothe conclusion that it belonged to this group, tc which Dr. Hornhas rightly assigned it, if it is to remain under Cicindela. 115. Cicindela funebris, Cicindela funebris, Schmidt-Goebel, Col. Faun. Birm. 1846, p. dolens, Fleutiaux, Soc. Ent. France, 1886, p. 111. A small species ; head and pronotum met
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. nia, Ohaud.,but has again been restored to Cicindela by Dr. W. Horn. Thepubescence of the underside is very easily rubbed off, and it wasonly after carefully examining several specimens that I came tothe conclusion that it belonged to this group, tc which Dr. Hornhas rightly assigned it, if it is to remain under Cicindela. 115. Cicindela funebris, Cicindela funebris, Schmidt-Goebel, Col. Faun. Birm. 1846, p. dolens, Fleutiaux, Soc. Ent. France, 1886, p. 111. A small species ; head and pronotum metallic, aeneous or green,elytra dark, dull, sometimes with greenish markings; labrumshort, testaceous ; head broad, with the eyes moderately prominent,the space between these finely striated; pronotum narrow, ratherlonger than broad, somewhat coppery at the sides, convex, slightlynarrowed behind, with the sides rounded, distinctly rugoselysculptured, middle line obsolete ; elytra with the sides almoststraight in the male, widened behind in the female, uneven, with. 342 CICTNT>ELIDyE. two velvety raised spaces on each (more apparent in some speci-mens than in others), depressed before apex, almost impunctate;at the margins there are two very small yellow spots, sometimesscarcely apparent, one just behind middle and one just at theante-apical contraction; femora dark metallic, tibiae and tarsipitchy, or in part metallic; underside cyaneous, or in part darkcoppery, with the sterna and abdomen bare, and with a strongfringe of white hairs on the edge of the posterior 9-10 millim. Punjab ; Sikkim : Kurseong, Mungphu; Assam : Naga Hills,4000 ft., IN. Manipur ; Burma : Karen Hills. 116. Cicindela motschulskyi, W. Horn. Cicindela motschulskyi, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1893,p. 198. Very like in general appearance, but larger, withthe pronotum narrower in proportion and less narrowed behind;the apex of the elytra is more truncate; the colour is obscurecop
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