527 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ENTOMOLOGY. No. XIV. New Species of Geodephagous Coleoptera from Tropical Australia. CiciNDELiD.E (3), and Carabid^ (5) [Platysmatini, Morioni, Perigonini, Masoreini, and Physocrotaphini]. By Thumas G. Sloane. cicindelidj:. Cicindela frenx'HI, n.sp. 2. Cupreous, elytra with wide lacteous margin; cupreous part of elytra strongly punctate; prothorax narroAv, subcylindrical; elytra oval, bimucronate at apex of suture. Upper surface of head, prothorax and internal part of elytra of a metallic copper-colour, elytra with a wide milky-white margin giving off an internal process about middle of length on each elytron; under surface metallic, cupreous, finely rugulose-punctate and clothed with white hairs on lateral parts, glabrous and of a coppery-green colour in middle, two apical segments of abdomen brownish; legs and four basal joints of antenna? metallic, coppery; tarsi and lower side of tibia? green; labrum lacteous, with extreme edge infuscate; mandibles lacteous, with apex black (base of dark apical part with cupreous reflections); labial palpi pallid, maxillary lurid, apical joint of all dark green; seven apical joints of antenna-lurid. Head wider than prothorax, 2-5 mm. across eyes. Prothorax a little broader than long (1*6 X 1-8 mm.), strongly rugose (the rugosity rough and intri-cate), impressed transversely anteriorly and posteriorly, and longitudinally in middle — the disc thus divided into two convex areas; anterior margin roundly produced in middle, not fringed with hairs ; upper surface glabrous. Elytra oval {5-5 X 3-1 mm.), cupreous area strongly and closely punctate, — the punctures stronger on basal than on apical area — the white
Studies in Australian entomology. No. XIV. New species of geodephagous Coleoptera from tropical Australia. Cicindelidae (3), and Carabidae (5) [Platysmatini, Morioni, Perigonini, Masoreini, and Physocrotaphini]
BioStor
