. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. mir ; Grilgit; Western Siberia ; Turkestan ; Persia. The priority-form occurs almost all over Europe from Spainto the Caucasus ; in the north of Persia, in some parts of Turkestan(e. g. Tekke, Tashkend), Khirgiz and Dsougaria; the does not occur in Europe, but is known from Transcaspiato the Kolyvan district, Altai and Dsongaria, from Turkestan,.Kashmir, and almost the whole of Persia (up to Sarhad and Seistanin the south-east). The locality Daurien (south-east of Trans-baikalia), is doubtf ul (Horn, Annotated L
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. mir ; Grilgit; Western Siberia ; Turkestan ; Persia. The priority-form occurs almost all over Europe from Spainto the Caucasus ; in the north of Persia, in some parts of Turkestan(e. g. Tekke, Tashkend), Khirgiz and Dsougaria; the does not occur in Europe, but is known from Transcaspiato the Kolyvan district, Altai and Dsongaria, from Turkestan,.Kashmir, and almost the whole of Persia (up to Sarhad and Seistanin the south-east). The locality Daurien (south-east of Trans-baikalia), is doubtf ul (Horn, Annotated List of Beetles inIndian Museum, i, p. 4). CICINDELA. 355 133. Cicindela humillima, Gestro. Cicindela humillima, Gestro, Ann. Mus, Genova, 1893, p. 353. This species differs from its allies by its broader elytra andtheir irregular and sinuate outline in the female, in which sexthey are abruptly widened at the anterior third; in the male theirregular outline is only just indicated; the pubescence of theunderside is more marked, the episterna of the prosternum being. !Fig. 155.— Cicindela humillima distinctly, though scantily, furnished with long white hairs. Ihave examined a fair series, and find that the other differencespointed out by authors are valueless as 8 J—9 millim. Burma : Bhamo, Teinzo, Shwegoo, Katha, Rangoon (BlighFea), Tharawaddy (Oorbett). Gestro (I. c.) says that this species was chiefly taken in themonths of June, July, and August, at the time of the rainy season,on the banks of the Irawaddy, Burma, in shady places left in amarshy state after the subsidence of the river. Fea relates thatit was so common that a single sweep of the net was sufficient tocollect a large quantity : ifc was very abundant at Bhamo. 134. Cicindela sinica, Fleut. Cicindela sinica, Fleutiaux, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1889, p. 137. Of a dull green colour, with slight coppery reflections; headwavily striated between the eyes and transversely rugose; pro-notum longer than
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