NEOCOLLYRIS. 



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without a reddish band in the centre of the elytra and a longi- 

 tudinal line of: the same colour behind the shoulders ; bead rather 

 large, slightly more narrowed behind in the male than in the 

 female, frontal excavation rather large, frontal sulci deep and 

 ■convergent behind ; antennas variable in colour ; palpi in the male 

 entirely rufous yellow, in the female pitchy black, first joint of 

 the labial palpi yellowish ; pronotum rather strongly constricted 

 at the base, conical before the base, with the sides not strongly 



Fig. 111. — JSfeocollyris rufipal-pis, and apophysal processes of female. 



rounded and passing gradually into a short pronotal collum, upper 

 surface almost smooth, very finely and in some specimens almost 

 imperceptibly strigose, under surface punctured and pilose ; elytra 

 subparallel-sided, very closely, evenly, and deeply punctured, with 

 traces of rugosity towards the suture in and behind the middle, 

 interstices raised ; femora clear red, tibiie and tarsi-dark ; meta- 

 sternum distinctly punctured ; apophysal processes of the last 

 ventral segment of the female bluut, curved, and divergent. 



This species is smaller than N. sajphyrina, and may be known 

 at once by its much finer punctuation ; from N. distincta it may 

 be separated by its wider pronotum, more strongly marked 

 shoulders of the elytra, and rather coarser punctuation ; and 

 from N. fuscitarsis, apart from various differences of form and 

 punctuation, by the colour of the legs. 



Length 13|-15 millim. 



Assam ; Burma : Karen Hills ; Cochin China ; Tonkin ; 

 Sumatra; Jaa^a. 



Apparently JV. obscura, Lesne, is merely a dark coloured variety. 



28. Neocollyris cylindrica, Schm.-Ooeb. 



Colly ris cylindrica, Schmidt-Goebel, Faim. Col. Bh\n. 1846, p. 15 ; 

 W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1899, p. 131. 



Cyaneous ; moderately broad, parallel-sided and cylindrical 



