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Title: Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Fowler, W. W. (William Weekes), 1849-1923
Subjects: Tiger beetles Ground beetles Beetles
Publisher: London : Taylor and Francis
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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des more or less rounded, withdistinct, but short and scanty, setse at the sides, very finely sculp-tured, constricted in front and behind : elytra long, parallel-sided,with very variable whitish or yellowish markings, consisting, as arule, of a long white stripe extending from the shoulders nearly tothe apex and parallel wTith the margins, and inside it several smallspots and patches; the long stripe, however, is often broken andirregular, but it can usually be traced; the smaller patches arevery variable and in a long series range from being very conspicuousto being almost entirely absent; the ground-colour of the elytrais velvety black, and there is hardly a trace of sculpture ; theshoulders are well marked; legs and underside metallic, coppery,green, and cyaneous; sides of abdomen, except towards apex, pubes-cent; episterna of metasternum and prosternum almost bare; gense,as a rule, quite bare, occasionally with a few very scanty hairs. Length 10-15 inillim 2 e 2 420 CICIXDELID7F.
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CIC1NDELA. 421 Madras: Trivandrum, Mahe,Nilgiri Hills; Bombay: Kanara;Bengal : Chota Nagpur, Maldah, Calcutta ; Sikkim : Muugphu ;Assam : KhasiHills; Burma : Teinzo, Tharawaddy, Pegu ; Tenas-serim ; indo-china ; sumatra ; java ; borneo ; celebes ;Philippine Is. ; China ; Formosa. Occasionally examples of this species superficially resembleO. multiguttata ; these may be distinguished by the shape of thepronotum, which is plainly constricted behind in C. striolata. Var. lineifrons, Chaud, This variety has the head and pronotum, as a rule, more dis-tinctly and brightly coppery, and the elytra broader and morerounded at the sides, the markings are reduced, and there is notrace of the longitudinal stripe extending from the shoulderalmost to the apex ; this is entirely broken up into a very narrowhumeral crescent and several small spots on each elytron; thepubescence of the underside is much the same as in the type-form,but it appears to be easily rubbed off and so is very deceptive.Length

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