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CICINDELID^:. 



Yar. ortygia, Buq, 



This variety, which is much commoner than the type-form, is 

 closely allied to it, but chiefly differs in having the pronotum less 

 stout and less rounded at the sides, and in the sculpture of the 

 elytra being shallower, but closer, and more plainly rugose in 

 the middle : intermediate forms, however, occur, and it is 

 doubtful whether it ought even to be separated as a variety. 

 All students of the group are much indebted to Dr. Horn for' 

 working out the synonymy, from which it will be gathered that 

 there is much variation in many points. This is one of the very 

 few members of the genus that can, in any sense, be called 

 common, so far as our knowledge goes at present, and an exa- 

 mination of a series leads us to think that some, at any rate, of 

 the described species will hereafter be sunk as synonyms. 



Madras: Mahc (Maindron); Bengal : Bajmahal (Annandale), 

 Calcutta ; Kashmir ; Nepal ; Assam : North Cachar ; Burma i 

 Bharuo, Tharawaddy, &c. ; South China ; Tonkin ; Siam ; Cochin 

 China ; Malay States : Malacca, Singapore ; Sumatra ; J AA r A ; 

 Bali ; Sumbawa ; Sumea ; Nias Is. ; Bangay Is. 



Yar. diversipes, nom. nov. 



This variety differs from the type-form in having the posterior 

 tarsi red, and the forehead less excavate ; the trochanters and the 

 apex of the posterior tibia? are sometimes of the same reddish 

 colour. The insect closely resembles A T . cruentata, Schm.-Goeb., 

 to which Dr. Horn at first assigned it as a variety. 



Length 134-144 millim. 



Burma ; Java ; Borneo. 



I suggest the name var. diversipes for this insect, as Dr. Horn's 

 name var. cruentata is already preoccupied in the genus. 



There are other varieties of this species which occur in South 

 China and the Malay Archipelago, but they have not hitherto 

 been found in India. 



21. Neocollyris distincta, Chaud. 



Collyris distincta, Chandoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, I860, p. 290; id., 



Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1804, p. 501. 

 Collyris procera, Chaudoir, Ami. Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. 501 : 



W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1898, p. 193. 



Variable both in size and colour, being blue, green, or violaceous ; 

 head rather long and broad, rounded behind the eyes, considerably 

 more narrowed in the male than in the female, rather deeply 

 excavate, with the space between the sulci not much raised ; 

 antennae dark with the central joints more or less ferruginous ; 

 pronotum long and rather slender, rather strongly constricted at 

 the base, with the intermediate part not strongly dilated and 

 passing imperceptibly into a short pronotal collum, upper surface 



