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Identifier: coleopteragenera00fowl (find matches)
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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to be very minute or obsolete in this species ; under-side greenish or bluish ; femora metallic (green or bluish and moreor less golden), trochanters and knees red or reddish, tibiae andtarsi reddish or pitchy red.Length 10-12 millim. Burma: N. Chin Hills, Karen Kills, Tharawaddy (Corbett),Pegu district; Annam ; Cambodia. Schmidt-Goebel described the species from a single small femalespecimen of uncertain locality. An example of this insect in the British Museum has the labrumblack and not testaceous as in Schmidt-Groebers description ; ina specimen which I have before me it is dark testaceous. Differ-ences of this kind are sometimes sexual, but in this case bothspecimens are females. 88. Prothyma schmidt-goebeli, W. Horn. Euryoda schmidt-yoebeli, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitsckr. 1898,p. 87. Very closely allied to P. exomata, Schm.-Groeb., but differs in itsmore robust build, evidently thicker head, and more convex andthicker pronotum, which has the anterior and posterior impressions
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PJtOTHYMA. 307 deeper and the sculpture a little sharper; the elytra are widerwith the impressions less evident and almost absent; the sides ofall the sterna are smooth ; the colour of the upper surface is abrighter copper, more shiny, and the whole margin of the elytrafrom the shoulders to the posterior white spot is bright cyaneous;in the single female specimen described by Dr. Horn the whitishspots are arranged as follows : one, very small, at the shoulder,another near the margin at middle, a third situated at the side of.and behind this, at a much greater distance than is the case withthe third spot in P. exornata, and a fourth near margin at apex ;the third spot is at about an equal distance from the second andfourth and forms with them an equilateral triangle; according toDr. Horn there is no humeral spot in the female in P. exornata,but there is a specimen in the Calcutta Museum in which a verysmall one is present. The palpi (with the exception of the lastjoint) and the trochan
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