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CICINDELID.E. 



portion exactly conical, not abruptly narrowed in front, the upper 

 surface thickly and plainly striate ; elytra with the shoulders 

 more oblique, more strongly punctured at the apex, and with the 

 interstices very finely reticulate ; femora obscurely red. 



Length 26| millim. 



Ceylon : Colombo. 



This species has, apparently, occurred only in Ceylon. There 

 is a large specimen in the Oxford Museum, unnamed, labelled as 

 from Assam, which agrees in several points very closely with 

 Chaudoir's description, especially in the shape of the pronotum. 

 I ha^e provisionally referred it to -C. longicollis var. caviceps, 

 Klug, but it may possibly belong to this species. It is a large 

 dark coloured female, in bad condition, almost 28 millim. in length. 

 Chaudoir mentions a specimen in the Hope collection, " en assez 

 mauvais etat," as belonging to C. cavicepg, but speaks of it as 

 from Mysore ; it is possible, however, that this is the specimen 

 he refers to, as the writing on the label is not distinct. 



3. Collyris brevipennis, W. Rom. 



Colly ris brevijyennis, W. Horn, Deutsche Eut. Zeitschr. 1901, p. 44. 

 Var. Collyris subtile sculpta, W. Horn, 1. c. ; Maindron, Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. France, 1905, p. 6. 



Of a violaceous colour, with the labrum cyaneous, and with an 

 seneous reflection on the elytra. Head very strongly excavate, 

 with the part between the furrows small and convex ; pronotum 

 long, not strongly constricted at base, with the pronotal collum 

 not abruptly marked, upper surface strongly strigose transversely, 

 underside pilose and finely strigose ; elytra closely, strongly, and 

 regularly punctured to the apex, the interstices being well 

 marked ; towards the apex the punctures form deep linear 

 impressions ; metasternum finely but evidently punctured; femora 

 and apex of posterior tarsi red, the rest of the legs dark. 



From C. longicollis this species differs in having the pronotum 

 less narrowed in front and less dilated behind, much less strangu- 

 late before the base, and more thickly strigose transversely ; the 

 elytra are much shorter and more regularly reticulate, especially 

 in the middle. 



Length 24 millim. 



Bombay. 



Type in coll. W. Horn. 



Var. subtilescnlpta, W. Horn. 



Larger than the type form ; of a steely blue or violaceous 

 colour ; the vertex is not quite so deeply excavate between the 

 eyes ; the pronotum is a very little more constricted near the 

 apex and the basal sulcus is rather broader and more evident at 

 the sides ; the elytra are larger, wider, and more ampliated, 

 with the shoulders more marked ; the punctuation is of much the 

 same character, but with the interstices less raised, so that the 



