. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. onotum andelytra being much brighter ; labrumand antennae (except towards apex)red; head large and broad, flatbetween the eyes, irregularly striatein front, finely and irregularlyrugose transversely behind; pro-notum convex, shiny, with thecentral line not strongly marked,deeply impressed in front and be-hind, with the anterior impressionrugose, rather strongly rounded atsides, slightly narrowed before base,feebly sculptured; elytra very con-vex, regularly, closely and stronglypunctured from base to apex, withFig. 137.— Prothy
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. onotum andelytra being much brighter ; labrumand antennae (except towards apex)red; head large and broad, flatbetween the eyes, irregularly striatein front, finely and irregularlyrugose transversely behind; pro-notum convex, shiny, with thecentral line not strongly marked,deeply impressed in front and be-hind, with the anterior impressionrugose, rather strongly rounded atsides, slightly narrowed before base,feebly sculptured; elytra very con-vex, regularly, closely and stronglypunctured from base to apex, withFig. 137.— Prothyma scrobiculata. the sides not dilated behind, and gradually rounded to the suturalaugle, which is produced into a small point; legs entirely red;underside smooth and shining, bright blue or 13-1-1 millim. Bengal : Maldah {Indian Museum), Chota Nagpur, June-July. This species has a peculiar facies and certainly looks as if itmight be placed in a separate genus, but the characters do notseem sufficient to warrant its being regarded as 82. Prothyma proxima, Chaud. Cicindela proxima, Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1860, p. 325. Upper surface of a dark cyaneous or dark blue colour, with thefront parts dark green or almost black, and with the sides ofthe elytra more brightly coloured in some specimens ; labrum PROTHYMA. 303 testaceous in the centre in the male, unicolorous in the female ;head almost flat between the eyes, irregularly striate throughout,the striations forming wavy Hues ; pronotum more or less trans-verse with the sides not or scarcely rounded, and the central linemore or less distinct, sculptured much as the head, but trans-versely and more strongly ; elytra strongly punctured at base,less ciosely, though distinctly, behind, the sculpture being some-what rugose in places, with the shoulders well marked, and withtraces of a short broad furrow between shoulders and suture ; oneach there are two whitish spots, one just behind middle and oneb
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