. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. laevigata, Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 18G0, p. raphidioides, Schaum, Berlin Ent. Zeitsclir. 1861, p. Derocrania obscuripes, Bates, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) xvii, 1886, p. 70. An elongate and delicate species ;shining black with a more or less dis-tinct aeneous or greenish seneousreflection ; head large and very broadin proportion to the collum of pro-notum, smooth, shiny, and convexbetween the eyes, occasionally slightlydepressed ; pronotum lagenoid orflask-shaped, with a long and verynar
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. laevigata, Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 18G0, p. raphidioides, Schaum, Berlin Ent. Zeitsclir. 1861, p. Derocrania obscuripes, Bates, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) xvii, 1886, p. 70. An elongate and delicate species ;shining black with a more or less dis-tinct aeneous or greenish seneousreflection ; head large and very broadin proportion to the collum of pro-notum, smooth, shiny, and convexbetween the eyes, occasionally slightlydepressed ; pronotum lagenoid orflask-shaped, with a long and verynarrow collum, which is slightlyrugose on its upper surface, dilatedpart broadest behind middle, smooth,with a very fine central line ; elytragradually and not abruptly narrowedto base, considerably but graduallydilated behind, not gibbose ; uppersurface rather strongly, but not veryclosely, punctured in front, very finelyand diffusely in the centre, and smoothFig. 127. and glabrous towards apex ; the sculp- Derocrania nietneri. ture is, however, a little variable;. 1>86 CIC1NDELIM. antennae very long, filiform, pitchy; legs red or testaceous,apex of tibise and the tarsi pitchy; apex of elytra producedinto a point which is more evident in the female than in themale. Length 10-12 millim. Central Ceylon : Balangoda Eidge, Kandy, July (E. E. Green). The var. obscnripes, Bates, has the legs of a rather dark testa-ceous red colour and the apices of the tibise and tarsi darkerpiceous. 65. Derocrania agues, W. Horn. Derocrania agues, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1905, p. 64 ;id., Gen. Insect. Cicind. pi. 8, fig. 4. Closely allied to D. nietneri, hut much more slender, with thehead very slightly smaller and the collum of the pronotum evi-dently longer; the elytra are somewhat more elongate, with thesculpture more evident, slightly coarser in front, less evanescentin the middle, and about as distinct behind as it is on the centralportion in I), nietneri ; the legs are much longer th
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