238 MR. H. E. ANDREWES ON THE 



Callistomimus chalcocephalus Wied. (Plate I. fig. 1.) 



Callistomimus messii Bates. 



do. do. var. quadristigma Bates. 



"Wiedemann's type, which I have recently seen at Copenhagen, 

 was alleged to come from Java and may have done so, though I 

 have seen no other example from the Malay region. He was in 

 the same paper also describing species from Bengal, and I think 

 it possible that his insect came from that locality. 



Bates described his G. messii from Hong Kong, and C. quadri- 

 stigma from Burma. The former is identical with Wiedemann's 

 species : of the latter, which has rather larger yellow spots on 

 the elytra., Bates says " Probably not more than a local race of " 

 C. messii, with which I quite agree. 



I have before me specimens of the type form from Hong Kong, 

 and from Tonkin — Than Moi (R. Vitalis de Salvaza), of the variety 

 (in addition to cotypes from the Fea collection) specimens from 

 Laos — Vientiane (R. Vitalis de Salvaza), Cochin-Ohina — Bien-hoa 

 (Coll. Fleutiaux), and Burma — Rangoon (H. L. Andreioes); also 

 intermediate forms, as regards the size of the yellow spots, from 

 Burma — May my o (H. L. Andreioes), Sikkim — Gopaldhara (H. 

 Stevens), and Dehra Dun (Indian Museum and Forest Res. Inst.). 

 An example from Kumaon — W. Almora (II. G. Champion) has 

 very small elytral spots, and the upper surface, as in all Indian 

 specimens I have seen, is more strongly punctate than in the 

 China and Burma forms. The example taken by Dr. Stoliczka in 

 the Jhelam Valley (Second Tarkand Mission), and determined 

 by Bates as C. chalcocephalus, is now fragmentary, the head and 

 prothorax having disappeared, but the elytra seem to be those of 

 the species under consideration, with the yellow spots well 

 developed. Bates indicates in his paper no feeling of doubt 

 regarding this determination, but he put two marks of interro- 

 gation on his label. With such slender Indian material available 

 it seems useless to put names to any of the slightly varying forms. 



C. chlorocephalus Kollar has not to my knowledge been identi- 

 fied as yet, and, like Wiedemann's species, it was evidently 

 unknown to Chaudoir. The locality is uncertain, but Kollar 

 thought the specimen probably came from India. The figure is 

 a poor one, but, judging by the hind angles of the prothorax, I 

 think the species will prove to be identical with chalcocephalus*. 



G. qaadriguttatus Putz. is probably also the same thing, but I 

 have unfortunately not yet ascertained the whereabouts of 

 Putzeys' types. 



Callistomimus sikkimensis, sp. n. (Plate I. fig. 5.) 

 Length 5 - 5 mm. 



Black. Head metallic green ; prothorax red, with a vague dark 

 faintly ameous patch on disk on each side of median line ; elytra 



* Dr. Holdhaus has kindly compared a specimen of C. chalcocephalus, which I 

 sent to him, with Kollar's t\ pe in the Vienna Museum, and tinds the species to he 

 different. The type is unfortunately a "ruin." so that he cannot send it to me for 

 examination. 



