. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. CIOTNJJELA. 415 perceptibly sculptured, with a white linear patch at the shoulders,sometimes dilated at the base and touching the scutellum, an oblique linear patch sloping fromright to left at middle, and alongitudinal or broad comma-shaped spot before the apex ; legsdark, more or less cyaneous, tro-chanters black; underside vio-laceous, with the sides of theabdomen, except apical segments,and of the metasternum proper,thickly pubescent; episterna ofthe prosternum bare, of the meta-sternum almost bare, with a fewsetae at the
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. CIOTNJJELA. 415 perceptibly sculptured, with a white linear patch at the shoulders,sometimes dilated at the base and touching the scutellum, an oblique linear patch sloping fromright to left at middle, and alongitudinal or broad comma-shaped spot before the apex ; legsdark, more or less cyaneous, tro-chanters black; underside vio-laceous, with the sides of theabdomen, except apical segments,and of the metasternum proper,thickly pubescent; episterna ofthe prosternum bare, of the meta-sternum almost bare, with a fewsetae at the sides. Length 15-20 : Trincomali, AVella-waya (E. E. Green).. Fig. 179.—Oicindcla ceylonensisvar. diversa. Var. diversa, W. Horn. This variety has the centrallinear patch on the elytra broaderand less oblique and the hinderpatch larger and more produced towards the centre: theanterior linear patch is also more curved. It apparently occurswith the type-form. Only the figure is given by Dr. Horn anda reference without description on page 4, no. 31, /. : Damboolla. Group 21. Pronotum with the sides furnished with very distinct seta?,which, in fresh specimens, spread more or less over the disc ;gense more or less strongly pubescent *; sides of undersidethickly clothed with pubescence, which is villose or tomentose;episterna of metasternum nearly covered, or partly bare. Threespecies are included in this section, two with the elytra black witha number of conspicuous white spots and markings, and the otherwith the elytra dark with yellowish linear patches. Key to the Elytra black with white markings:pubescence clear white, thick
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