. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. h a few slight striae near theeyes; pronotum subquadrate, with thesides nearly straight, or very slightlyrounded, plainly setose at the sides;elytra subparallel-sided in the male,slightly widened behind in the female,black, black-green, or slightly cya-neous, each with a small, white humeralcrescent, a longitudinal patch near thescutellum, an apical spot, and sevenother spots, three near the suture, twoon the disc, and two near the margins;these vary in size and shape, butappear not to be confluent; legs long,metallic green an
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. h a few slight striae near theeyes; pronotum subquadrate, with thesides nearly straight, or very slightlyrounded, plainly setose at the sides;elytra subparallel-sided in the male,slightly widened behind in the female,black, black-green, or slightly cya-neous, each with a small, white humeralcrescent, a longitudinal patch near thescutellum, an apical spot, and sevenother spots, three near the suture, twoon the disc, and two near the margins;these vary in size and shape, butappear not to be confluent; legs long,metallic green and violaceous, tro-chanters pitchy ; underside green andviolaceous, almost completely covered,except just in the middle, with thick whitish tomentose pub-escence ; gence thickly 15^-16 millira. Bengal : Berhampur, Dacca, Murshidabad, Bajmahal, Birbhum,Damukdia, Sara Ghat; Sikkim : Kurseong, Mungphu, Pankabari •Bhutan. On young rice-fields ( Westermann); Dr. Annandale records thespecies from a flooded millet field at the edge of the River Fig. 180.— Cicindelavigintiguttata. CICINDELA. 417 192. Cicindela multiguttata, Dej. Cicindela multiguttata, Dejean, Spec. Col. i, p. 109. Smaller thau the preceding, which it much resembles in generalappearance ; it may be easily known by the longer labrum, thesmaller head, the much narrower space between the moreprominent eyes, and the longer and distinctly narrower pronotum,which is rather longer than broad ; the white markings on theelytra are different, the lunule at the shoulder being larger, andthe hinder markings more or less confluent; of these there arefive or six in all on each, besides the humeral patch; the apicalpatch is crescent-shaped and dilated at its upper extremity; thetrochanters are red; the underside is thickly pubescent at thesides, as in the preceding species, the genae being comparativelyscantily but distinctly pubescent. Length 12-13 millim. Bengal: Calcutta, Sara Ghat, Asansol; Nepal; Ass
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