NEOCOLLYRIS. 



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colour, being yellowish-red or partly dark. The male and female 

 do not appreciably differ. 

 Length 10-12 millim. 



Madras : Palni Hills, Kodaikanal ( W. H. Campbell, August, 

 1904); Burma: Karen Hills ; Siam; Sumatra; Java. 



Var. brachycephala, W. Horn. 



This variety differs from the type in having the head much 

 shorter and less attenuated, more convex and broader behind the 

 eyes ; the palpi, legs, and trochanters are red and the apex of 

 the tibiae is sometimes darker. Dr. Horn says that the formation 

 of the head in this variety is very remarkable, being more 

 quadrate, with the vertex much less long and broader than in 

 the type-form ; intermediate forms, however, occur. 



Length 9-10 millim. 



Burma : Karen Hills. 



The small size and very narrow pronotum with the sides 

 scarcely dilated before its base will easily distinguish this species. 



10. Neocollyris variitarsis, Ohaud. 



Collyris variitarsis, Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1860, p. 295 ; 



id., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. 523. 

 Collyris schmidt-goebeli, W. Horn, Ann. Mus. Geneva, 1893, p. 378. 

 Collyris brachycephala, W. Horn, op. cit. p. 379. 



Variable in size, cyaneous blue, with the elytra sometimes green, 

 and occasionally with a narrow line below the shoulders and a 

 transverse central fascia reddish ; head narrow, conically elongate 

 below the eyes, with the frontal sulci straight and not approximate 

 behind ; pronotum elongate, much longer than the head with the 

 labrum, slightly constricted at the base, with the intermediate part 

 subovate, subparallel-sided, the pronotal collum not marked, the 

 disc not striate, but with the upperside rather closely punctured 

 and the base usually rugosely punctured ; elytra narrow, very long, 

 parallel-sided, closely and rather finely sculptured throughout, the 

 punctures being a little smaller and less close at the apex ; sides 

 of the pro-, meso-, and meta-sternum thickly punctured ; antennae 

 slightly thickened towards the apex, with the first two joints 

 cyaneous black, and the rest mostly flavo-testaceous ; legs dark, 

 femora more or less rufescent. Head longer and narrower in the 

 male than in the female. 



Length 9-13 millim. 



Bengal ; Sikkim : Darjiling, Sukna ; Nepal ; Assam : Dunsiri 

 Valley, &c. * ; Burma : Karen Hills, Teinzo ; Tenasserim ; 

 Penang ; Tonkin. 



* The Assam insect has the elytra green and the pronotum broader, less 

 conical, and slightly dilated and rounded at the sides (vide Horn L> E Z 

 1901, p. 45). 



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