244 



ClCIKDELIDiE. 



p. 526), which occurs in Singapore, Sumatra and Java, has the 

 pronotal collum more marked, and the elytra a little broader and 

 more coarsely and rugosely punctured. 



ffi. linearis is very closely allied to JS\ subtilis, but differs in 

 its larger size, smoother pronotum, and more evenly punctured 

 elytra. 



13. Neocollyris parvula, Chanel. 



Collyris parvula, Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1848, p. 17 ; id., 



Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. 527. 

 Var. Collyris amana, Chaudoir, op. cit., 1860, p. 295. 



Cyaneous or more or less violaceous ; head moderately long, 

 labrum cyaneous, unicolorous ; forehead moderately excavate, 

 the excavation being somewhat narrowed 

 in front, as the eyes are closer together 

 before the labrum than in the allied 

 species ; vertex behind the eyes long and 

 smooth ; antennae rufescent, pitchy to- 

 wards apex, first joint cyaneous, second 

 joint pitchy : pronotum long, not strongly 

 constricted, at the base, with the portion 

 before this moderately rounded and pass- 

 ing gradually into the distinct pronotal 

 collum, which is slightly, but distinctly, 

 & HI X dilated at the apex ; upper surface rugose 



transversely, underside smooth and very 

 sparingly pilose ; elytra narrow, with the 

 shoulders not marked, evenly and rather 

 strongly punctured until just before the 

 apex, where they are nearly smooth ; legs 

 rufo-testaceous, with the tarsi and most 

 of the posterior tibise black-cyaneous ; 

 episterna of metasternum smooth. In 

 the male the eyes are a little more convex 

 and the head is a little more narrowed behind, but the differences 

 are hardly appreciable. 

 Length 9|-10| millim. 

 Bombay : North Kanara, Bel gaum. 



Fig. 105. 



Neocollyris parvula. 



Var. amcena, Chaucl. 



This variety, which is found with the type, differs chiefly in 

 being of a greenish or olivaceous colour with the tibise and tarsi 

 blackish and slightly metallic. Apart from this, the differences 

 are so slight that it can hardly be regarded as even a variety : 

 it occurs with the type and with intermediate forms, as pointed 

 out by Dr. Horn (Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1894, p. 169). 



