. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. ri, Cachar. 59. Tricondyla mellyi, Chaud. Tricondyla mellyi, Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1850, p. 17; Fleutiaux, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1893, p. tumidula, Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) iii, 1859, p. 50. Larger than the preceding spe-cies which it much resembles inother respects ; head with the sulcih between the eyes very strongly* marked, and the orbital stria) varia-ble but usually distinct; pronotumS broader and more ample, with theI contraction before the apical con-J striction rather more marked ;^ elyt
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. ri, Cachar. 59. Tricondyla mellyi, Chaud. Tricondyla mellyi, Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1850, p. 17; Fleutiaux, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1893, p. tumidula, Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) iii, 1859, p. 50. Larger than the preceding spe-cies which it much resembles inother respects ; head with the sulcih between the eyes very strongly* marked, and the orbital stria) varia-ble but usually distinct; pronotumS broader and more ample, with theI contraction before the apical con-J striction rather more marked ;^ elytra less abruptly narrowed be-J hind and not so strongly or rugoselyJ sculptured; legs pitchy red, withI the tibiae and tarsi 22-24 ; Assam : Silcuri, Cachar;Tonkin. Chaudoir, in his original descrip-tion, compares this species in detailwith T. altera, from which it isFig. 124.— Tricondyla mellyi. abundantly distinct. Fleutiaux (I. c.) says that it may easily be dis-tinguished by the coarse and thick sculpture of the posterior portion. TlilCONl) YL A. 281 of the elytra. Its nearest allies are T, tuberculata and T. gestroi;from the former of these the last mentioned character willcertainly distinguish it, bat in the only specimen of T. gestroiwhich I have seen, and which was determined by Gestro him-self, the punctuation is quite as strong at the apex as in T. mellyi,and apart from its smaller size and the stronger sculpture ofthe elytra, which is more confluent near the suture in and aboutthe middle, it would be hard to separate it from the last-namedspecies. 60. Tricondyla gestroi, Fleut. Tricondyla gestroi, Flentiaux, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1893, p. mellyi, Gestro (nec Chaud.), Ann. Mus. Genova, 1893,p. 370. Nigro-violaceous, black or cyaneous black; closely allied toT, tuberculata, but a little more shining, with the orbital stria?scarcely marked, and the pronotum more gibbous and less grad-ually contracted in front; the elytra are
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