NEOCOLLYMS. 



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Collyris thoracica, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeit. 1892, 

 p. 356, & 1897, p. 50. 

 Collyris bonelli var. diversipes, nom. nov. 



C. bonelli var. cruentata, W. Horn {nec Sehm.-Goeb.), 

 Deutsche Ent. Zeit. 1894, p. 224. 



Variable in colour, cyaneous, blue or dark with or without a 

 violaceous tinge. Head rather large, with the vertex wider in 

 the male than in the female, labrum large with biunt teeth, eyes 



rather prominent ; forehead rather 

 strougly excavate between the eyes, 

 not raised between the sulci which are 

 deep and parallel ; antennae some- 

 what thickened towards the apex, 

 variable in colour; pronotum stout, 

 strongly constricted near the base and 

 apex, intermediate portion dilated 

 and then contracted into a very short 

 pronotal collum, disc smooth and 

 shining, with remote scattered punc- 

 tures, but not striolate ; underside 

 punctured and pilose ; elytra closely 

 and strongly, but variably, punctured, 

 the sculpture showing a tendency to 

 become rugose in the middle ; legs 

 variable in colour, but with the tarsi, 

 the tibiae, and the extreme apex of the 

 femora, and also the posterior coxa?, 

 as a rule, dark ; metasternum more 

 or less punctured, the punctuation 

 being variable. 



Length 13-13| millim. 

 Bengal : Calcutta ; Sikkim ; Assam : Naga Hills and Patkai 

 Hills (Doherty) ; Burma : Maymyo, 3000 ft. (Bingham), Thara- 

 waddy and Pegu (Corbett) ; Texasserim (Doherty) ; Java. 



I am somewhat doubtful of the Calcutta locality, which rests 

 on a single specimen in the Indian Museum. 



Fig. 108. 



2\'cocollyris bonelli var. ortygia. 



Var. batesi, W. Horn. 



Larger than the type, with the head broader and thicker : the 

 forehead broadly excavate and furnished with a plain impression 

 behind ; the pronotum short and moderately narrowed in front, 

 and the elytra short and coarsely sculptured ; the colour is either 

 green or violaceous. 



Length 14 millim. 



Assam : Khasi Hills ; Siam ; Cochin China. 



Dr. Horn introduced this insect as a new species allied 

 to N. saphyrina, but now considers it to be a variety of 

 JOT. bonelli. 



