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CICINDELIDtE. 



shoulders, and also a transverse indistinct rufous band in the 

 middle ; the femora are red, the tibiae dark cyaneous, and 

 the posterior tarsi testaceous. 

 Length 13-15 millim. 



Burma ; Perak ; Siam ; Cambodia ; Cochin China ; Malacca. 



23. Neocollyris cylindripennis, Chaud. 



Colly ris cylindripennis, Chaudoir, Rev. Mag'. Zool. 1864, p. 100; 

 id., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1804, p. 514, pi. 8, tig. 13. 



One of the most distinct of all the species ; elongate, bronze or 

 pitchy bronze ; labium large, with broad blunt teeth ; head long, 

 moderately excavate between the eyes, sulci not strongly marked, 

 vertex long, smooth, and shining ; antennae long, slightly thickened 



towards the apex, pitchy, central joints 

 ringed with red ; pronotum not strongly 

 constricted before the base, the portion 

 before the constriction being cylin- 

 drical and parallel-sided, and distinctly 

 but obtusely angled before the pronotal 

 collum, which is not very long but very 

 distinct and parallel-sided, anterior 

 margin reflexed, upper surface with 

 large obscure scattered punctures, 

 under surface punctured and pilose : 

 elytra long, with a more or less cop- 

 pery reflection, greenish towards the 

 base, with a very distinct testaceous 

 band at middle, and in most cases a 

 fine reddish lateral line extending 

 from the shoulders, strongly punctured 

 throughout, the punctuation in the 

 centre being rugose, and at the apex 

 finer and longitudinally rugose; meta- 

 sternum almost impunctate, except in 

 the middle ; legs slender, reddish, 

 ferruginous, or pitchy, the posterior 

 ind the apex of the posterior tibiae being 



Fig. 109. 



Neocollyris cyl uidripcnnis, 



tarsi (except the claws) 

 whitish testaceous. 



Length 15-16 millim. 



Burma: Karen Hills {Fea) 



Siam. 



24. Neocollyris cruentata, Schm.-Goeb. 



Collyris cruentata, Schmidt-Goebel, Faun. Col. Birm. 1846, p. 14 ; 

 Chaudoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1804, p. 505. 



Variable in colour, elytra cyaneous, or greenish cyaneous, or 

 violaceous, or brownish with a violaceous reflection, front parts 

 dark, shining, with a greenish or violaceous tinge; head rather 



