. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. extended towards the middle of the elytra and not, or very slightly,clavate; the central marking is sometimes frayed at the sides;legs and underside bright metallic green or coppery green, thelatter tomentose at the sides ; genae bare; trochanters 8-9 millim. Sind: Karachi {Bell) ; Sikkim : Kurseong, Darjiling; Bhutan;Bengal : Sara Ghat, Patna District, Calcutta, Maldah, Bajmahal,Asansol, Chota Nagpur; Madeas: Pondicherry, Rarnnad ; Burma:Pegu : Cambodia. On sandy river banks (Westermann); this is another of th
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. extended towards the middle of the elytra and not, or very slightly,clavate; the central marking is sometimes frayed at the sides;legs and underside bright metallic green or coppery green, thelatter tomentose at the sides ; genae bare; trochanters 8-9 millim. Sind: Karachi {Bell) ; Sikkim : Kurseong, Darjiling; Bhutan;Bengal : Sara Ghat, Patna District, Calcutta, Maldah, Bajmahal,Asansol, Chota Nagpur; Madeas: Pondicherry, Rarnnad ; Burma:Pegu : Cambodia. On sandy river banks (Westermann); this is another of thespecies that flies to light on the river steamers. 148. Cicindela agnata, Fleut, Cicindela agnata, Fleutiaux, C. R. Soc. Ent. Belgique, 1890, p. 68. Larger than C. nitida, from which it is easily, distinguished byits brownish coppery colour, longer and narrower pronotum, redtrochanters, and different elytral markings, which are however ofmuch the same character; labrum rather long, whitish testaceous,with a very distinct row of hairs on the anterior border; head. Fig. 159.— Cicindela nitida. 368 OICIKDELID^. very finely striated inside the eyes ; pronotum rather longer thanbroad, with the sides straight, very finely sculptured, with well-marked white hairs at the sides ; elytra very finely sculptured,with the suture coppery, markings broader than in C. nitida, andall, as in that species, connected with the light margin, the centralinverted V-shaped marking being less produced behind and ending-near the suture in a triangular club, and the posterior marking having its upper process much 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
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