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OICINDELIM. 



head moderately broad, deeply excavate, with distinct frontal 

 furrows ; antennae short, scarcely reaching the middle of the 

 pronotum, scarcely thickened towards the apex, with the first 

 three joints blue, the next two partly blue, and the rest red ; 

 pronotum feebly constricted at the base and gradually narrowed 

 until just before the apex, finely strigose transversely ; elytra 

 coarsely and not closely punctured, rugose in the middle, finely 

 and longitudinally punctured at the apex ; legs red or yel- 

 lowish red, with the anterior and intermediate tibise and tarsi 

 cyaneous, and the last two joints of the posterior tarsi black- 

 brown. 



Length 14 millim. 



Burma. 



29. Neocollyris fuscitarsis, Schm.-Goeb. 



Collyris fuscitarsis, Schmidt-Goebel, Faun. Col. Birm. 1846, p, 1G ; 



Chaudoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. 499. 

 Collyris diffracta, Schm.-Goeb., op. cit. p. 17. 



Blue, violaceous, purplish, or green, but usually blue ; head 

 large, vertex not strongly narrowed behind the eyes, which are 

 prominent, frontal excavation deep, the space between the sulci 

 not very convex, labrum large ; antenna? dark at the base, the 

 rest reddish yellow ; pronotum moderately constricted at the base, 

 and strongly so before the apex, the intermediate portion being 

 gradually but not strongly widened from 

 the base towards the apex, before which 

 it forms a very short pronotal collum 

 (in a large series, however, such as I 

 have before me, this character slightly 

 varies), upper surface with more or less 

 distinct rugose striation, under surface 

 somewhat remotely but plainly punctured, 

 and pilose : elytra strongly and coarsely 

 punctured, the punctures being larger and 

 rugose in the middle, and much finer 

 towards the base, the apex being almost 

 smooth ; legs bright red, the anterior and 

 intermediate tarsi, and the apical joint 

 of the posterior pair being fuscous ; 

 metasternum very finely, but distinctly 

 punctured. 



Length 15-18 millim. 

 Sikkim; Assam: Burma: Moulmein, 

 Rangoon, Tharawaddy ; Cochin China ; 

 Tonkin ; Malacca ; Sumatra ; Java. 

 Schmidt-Goebel (I.e. p. 16) says that Heifer, in his Journal, 

 has the following note on this species : — 



Fig. 112. 



Neocollyris juscitarsis 



