. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. broader and more curved ; legs andunderside coppery green, the latter with very strong tomentosepubescence at the sides ; gense bare, trochanters 9-10 millim. Sikkim : Kurseong; Bengal : Balighai, near Puri, Orissa,Chota Nagpur, Asansol; Madras : Earnnad, Pondicherry. Eleutiaux says that the female has a broader labrum with ablack border in front, but in the only female I have seen thelabrum is entirely whitish testaceous. The species appears to bemost closely allied to the European species C. trisignata. This speci
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. broader and more curved ; legs andunderside coppery green, the latter with very strong tomentosepubescence at the sides ; gense bare, trochanters 9-10 millim. Sikkim : Kurseong; Bengal : Balighai, near Puri, Orissa,Chota Nagpur, Asansol; Madras : Earnnad, Pondicherry. Eleutiaux says that the female has a broader labrum with ablack border in front, but in the only female I have seen thelabrum is entirely whitish testaceous. The species appears to bemost closely allied to the European species C. trisignata. This species occurs not uncommonly on the sand dunes of theOrissa coast, but not on the sea-shore, which is monopolized byC. hiramosa to the exclusion of all other species. C. agnata isfound in most localities, together with C. cancellata (Annandale.) 149. Cicindela sublacerata, Solshg, var. balucha, Bates. Cicindela sublacerata, Solsky, Col. Turk, ii, 1874, p. balucha, Bates, Cist. Ent. 1878, p. 332. C. sublacerata appears to be a somewhat widely spread Palse-. Fig. 160.— Cicindela agnata. 369 arctic species which has occurred iu Turkestan and the Caucasus;it is an oolong, subcylindrical species, of an obscure greenishbronze colour, and the elytral markings are of much the samecharacter as in the two preceding species, the margins also beingcontinuously whitish testaceous. Dr. Horn appears to be right intreating C. balncha. Bates, as a subspecies or variety of this compares it with C. chilolevca, to which C. suhlacerata israther closely allied, but says it is much shorter and more obscurelycoloured than that species. I have seen neither the type nor thevariety, and append a translation of Batess description of hisspecimens:— Fuscous-purple, with the elytra subovate, narrowed towardsthe base, with a humeral and apical crescent (the latter with the.•interior horn clavate) and a ceutral fascia strongly bent anddilacerate, yellow (the fascia and t
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