XXXI. RECORDS OF SOME INDIAN 

 CICINDELIDAE. 



By Cedric Dover and Sydney Ribeiro, Assistants, Zoological 



Survey of India. 



Having recently had occasion to re-arrange the Cicindelidae in 

 the collection of the Zoological Survey of India, we found that it 

 contained many specimens from localities unrecorded by Canon 

 Fowler in his volume on the Cicindelidae and Paussidae in the 

 ■' Fauna of British India " series; and, as in most other groups of 

 Indian insects, much remains to be known about their geogra- 

 phical distribution, we have drawn up the following note in the 

 hope that it will be useful. We have endeavoured to incorporate 

 the few records of Indian species that have been published since 

 Fowler's volume appeared. 



It may be mentioned that most of the specimens listed here 

 have been collected by the officers of this department ; especially 

 by Dr. S. W. Kemp, in Assam and elsewhere, and Dr. F. H. Gravely 

 in the Darjiling District. Dr. and Mrs. Kemp's collection from 

 the Garo Hills, Assam, made in July and August, 1917 is perhaps 

 the most interesting recent addition to the collection, as these hills 

 were hitherto practically unexplored. 



The identifications of all the more critical species mentioned 

 in this paper have been verified by Dr. Walther Horn. 



Collyris brevipennis, Horn. Talewadi near Castle Rock, X- 

 Kanara Dist. {Kemp, 3-iox'i6) and Castle Rock (ir-26'x 16). 

 Dr. Kemp tells us that he took the Talewadi specimen on a small 

 bush while it was boring with the posterior end of its body into one 

 of the branches, presumably with a view to oviposition. 



Neocollyris yedtenbacheri, Horn. Tura, Garo Hills, Assam, 

 200-1500 ft. and above Tura, 3000 ft. This species is not rare in 

 the Darjiling Dist., from 1500-5000 ft. It has also been taken 

 in Kousanie, Kumaon, 6075 ft. {Tyiler, 25'vii'i4). 



Neocollyris attenuata, Redt. Darjiling Dist., from 150C-5000 

 ft. 



Neocollyris variitarsis, Chaud. Tura, 1200-1500 ft., and 

 Singla, Darjiling Dist., 1500 ft. 



Neocollyris variicornis , Chaud. Tura, 1200-1500 ft., .Sitong 

 near Mungphu, 3800-4000 ft., Darjiling Dist. {Kemp, 2-5"vii'i8) 

 and Singla, 1500 ft. The species has also been taken in Tonkin. 



Neocollyris bonelli ,Guer. Rangamati, Chittagong Hill Tracts, 

 (Hodgart, Ii-i6-vii-i5), Siripur, and Khargpur, Bengal. Sib- 

 sagar, Khasi Hills, and above Tura. Assam, Hills near Taiping, 

 Perak {Annandale, 26-30xii"i5), This species is widely distri- 



