. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. ate ; elytra long, sub-parallel-sided, not much nar-rowed in front or widenedbehind, and not gibbose, inform and sculpture resemblingTricondyla granulifera, Mots.,the sculpture, especially inthe middle, being very strong,transversely confluent, andrugose, the interstices beingraised in irregular transverseridges; antennae dark, withthe first and second joints andthe apex of the third and fourthmore or less distinctly red-Fig. 132.—-Derocrania halyi. dish ; femora red or reddish, tibiae and tarsi dark, more orless metallic; ely
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. ate ; elytra long, sub-parallel-sided, not much nar-rowed in front or widenedbehind, and not gibbose, inform and sculpture resemblingTricondyla granulifera, Mots.,the sculpture, especially inthe middle, being very strong,transversely confluent, andrugose, the interstices beingraised in irregular transverseridges; antennae dark, withthe first and second joints andthe apex of the third and fourthmore or less distinctly red-Fig. 132.—-Derocrania halyi. dish ; femora red or reddish, tibiae and tarsi dark, more orless metallic; elytra terminating externally in two sharp 20-21 There is an old male specimen of a Derocrania, which has beenfor many years in the Oxford Museum, and which must evidently bereferred to this species ; apart from the sculpture, etc., it is chieflyremarkable for its very long legs, a point which Horn does notnotice in his description His figure (I. c.) represents a morerobust insect, which is probably the female; the legs are THERATINJE. 293 Division PLATYSTERNALIJ1. Tlatysternaluc, YV. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1905, p. 10. This division contains all the Cicikdeliile except the Cteno-stomenvE and CoLLYRijSjE, from which they are distinguished, asbefore stated, by the broad, flat and smooth episterna of the meta-sternum. Two subfamilies are represented in the Indian fauna,the TheratintE and , which may be separated asfollows:— I. Outer lobe of the maxillary palpi obsolete and represented by a seta-like process Theratinae, p. 293. II. Outer lobe of the maxillary palpi normal . Cicindelinae, p. 300. Subfamily THERATINiE. The single genus comprised in this subfamily may easily beknown by having the outer lobe of the maxillary palpi obsoleteand represented by a minute seta-like process. By some authors itis included under the Collyriw^, to which it is in certain pointsrelated, as, for instance, in the formation of the apex of
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