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with scattered punctures, under surface punctured and pilose ; 

 elytra long, parallel-sided, cylindrical, closely and finely punctured 

 throughout, with only slight traces of rugosity in the middle; legs 

 slender and elongate, red, with the tibia) and tarsi more or less 

 impunctate ; mesosteriium smooth, except at the posterior angles 

 which are punctured. 

 Lew I tli 18-15 millim. 



Bombay: Kanara; Bengal : Calcutta; Sikkim: Darjiling; 

 Assam : Khasi Hills; Madras: Chatrapur, Ganjam District. 



In shape this species resembles JV. saphyrina, but it is smaller 

 and may be at once known by the much more fine and less rugose 

 sculpture of the elytra. 



Colly vis procera, Chaud., is a variety of this species, with the 

 forehead and vertex rather broader, the shoulders more plainly 

 marked and the elytra without elongate punctures towards apex 

 (v. W. Horn, 1). E. Z. 1898, p. 193). 



It is possible that one or two of the above localities may be in 

 error, as Dr. Horn (Annotated List, pt. i, p. 3) says that, prior to 

 the species being found at Calcutta, there was no record of its 

 occurrence in Northern India. It occurs up to the extreme north- 

 west of British India, but is not known from Ceylon. 



Dr. Horn appears iioav to consider this insect as a variety of 

 N: bonelli, but I prefer to leave it at present as a species. 



22. Neocollyris mcesta, Schm.-Goeb. 



Collyris mossta, Schmidt-Goebel, Faun. Col. Birm. 1846, p. 14 ^ 



Chandoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. 505, 

 Collyris Jldvicornis, Cliaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, I860, ii, p. 292 f 



id., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. 512, pi. 8, tig. 11. 



This species is allied to the var. ortygia of N. honelli, which 

 it resembles in several points. The colour is dark cyaneous or 

 violaceous with the head and pronotum sometimes almost black ; 

 the head is narrow, with the eyes not strongly prominent and the 

 forehead not deeply excavate ; the labrum has the central tooth 

 the narrowest, the next on each side being much broader and 

 rounded,- the third pair sharp, projecting and separated from the 

 adjacent pair by a broad notch, the fourth pair sharp and standing 

 some little way back from the rest ; the antennae are long and not 

 thickened; the pronotum is .not strongly strangulate at the base 

 and has the dilated portion in front of the base more slender, 

 longer, and more parallel-sided than in C. bonelli var. ortygia, the 

 pronotal collum being distinct, short, and parallel- sided ; the upper 

 surface is remotely punctured and slightly rugose (but this, 

 perhaps is variable) ; the elytra are a little broader behind, with 

 the general outline somewhat rounded (the shoulders being 

 obliquely rounded), strongly punctured, less closely at the base, 

 closely and rugosely in the centre, the sculpture becoming much 

 finer at the apex ; a red line is sometimes present behind the 



