On new Species o/Pj'rocliroidse. 527 



description exists in the British Museum Collection. 

 Perhaps the specimen from which TheobaUrs description 

 of C. vigilax (subsequently reuanicd 2)S€iicIovi(/ila.v) was 

 taken was, after all, only a slight aberration of the true 

 C. vigila.v, Skuse. 



LVIII. — Descriptions of neto Species 0/ Pyrochroidse. 

 By K. G. Blair. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



I HAVE recently been rearranging the collection of Pyrochroidre 

 in the British Museum, and amongst the accessions are a 

 considerable number of undescribed species. These were for 

 the most part contained in the Fry Collection, and collected 

 by Doherty in the Ruby Mines district of Burma : other 

 species obtained by him in Perak, specimens of which are also 

 contained in the Fry Collection, have recently been described 

 by M. Pic. In addition to these are descriptions of two 

 species from the Nilghiii Hills, the tj'pes of Avhicli have been 

 generously presented to the Museum by Mr. H. E. Andrewes, 

 and one species from Sumatra, communicated by Br. Gestro, 

 of the Museo Civico, Genova. To M. Maurice Pic I am 

 indebted for the loan of several types and for his identifica- 

 tion of many species. 



Pyrochroa melanocephala^ sp. n. 



Elongata, subparallela ; supra rufa ; capite nigro, collo rufo. 

 Long. 14 mm. 



Hah. Sikkim. 



Resembles rvjiceps, Pic, from the same locality, but that 

 the head is black, with only the neck red. The head is 

 transversely excavated between the eyes in the male, the 

 cavity being filled with black hairs. The antennae are 

 slender and finely pectinate ; the thorax is widest before the 

 base and the elytra subcostulate. 



Pyrochroa rufipes, sp. n. 

 palpis et abdomine nigris. 



Hal). Nilghiri Hills [H. E. Andrewes). 



2 . Kufa, antennis, palpis et abdomine nigris 

 Long. 14 mm. 



