. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. 201 Cicindela copulata, Cicindela copulata, Sckmidt-Uoebel, Faun. Col. Birm. 1846, p. 0. A very pretty and distinct little testaceous ; head metallic, withoutpubescence, brilliantly red and very finelystriated below the eyes, very finely sculp-tured in the middle and behind; eyesrather prominent ; pronotum narrow,subcylindrical, about as long as broad,coppery, finely sculptured, with the centralline slightly marked, disc bar 3; on theanterior and posterior margins are thickrows of very short seta?, a
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. 201 Cicindela copulata, Cicindela copulata, Sckmidt-Uoebel, Faun. Col. Birm. 1846, p. 0. A very pretty and distinct little testaceous ; head metallic, withoutpubescence, brilliantly red and very finelystriated below the eyes, very finely sculp-tured in the middle and behind; eyesrather prominent ; pronotum narrow,subcylindrical, about as long as broad,coppery, finely sculptured, with the centralline slightly marked, disc bar 3; on theanterior and posterior margins are thickrows of very short seta?, and from theupper edge of the prosternum projectsa border of long seta?, which appearto belong to the pronotum ; scutellum193.—Cicindela coppery ; elytra smooth and rather shiny,copulata. with extremely fine sculpture, ovate,. 430 CICINDELIDJE. bluntly pointed behind, apical sutural angle with a sharp spine, thesuture broadly dark, and with two markings on each proceedingfrom this, one like an inverted mallet joined to the suture byits head (sometimes separated from the suture), and the otherhatchet-shaped, joined to a process of the suture by the handle,extreme margins white, concolorous with the elytra; legsmetallic, trochanters and apex of abdomen red; undersidemostly bare, dark metallic, all the episterna covered with whitepubescence, and the gense 8 millim. Bengal : Calcutta (Heifer) * ; Sind: Karachi (Bell Sf Shopland). 8chmidt-Goebel describes the species in his Coleoptera ofBurma, but gives Cossipour, near Calcutta, as the only species is very local, and appears to have been met withvery rarely. Group 28. A very distinct group, with the whole upper surface smooth,glabrous and shining, and the underside clothed with moderate orthick pubescence ; the genae are bare ; the sides
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