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31. Neocollyris insignis, Chaud. 



Collyris insignis, Chaudoir, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1864, p. 76; id., Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. 496, pi. 7, fig. 4. 



Very closely allied to N. saphyrina, but 

 on the average larger, with the head a 

 little less quadrate in the male (in the 

 female the difference is not marked), the 

 pronotum slightly narrower and more elon- 

 gate, and distinctly less constricted at the 

 base, the basal angles being considerably 

 more in a line with the sides than in 

 JS T . saphyrina ; the sculpture of the elytra 

 is stronger, and the central plicae are larger 

 and more marked ; in some specimens there 

 are distinct traces of rugose striae on the 

 upper surface of the pronotum, but in 

 others the upper surface is quite smooth 

 as in the specimens of N. saphyrina which 

 I have seen ; this is apparently a variable 

 character in this group, for Chaudoir, in 

 describing N. saphyrina, says : " thorax 

 supra obsolete striolatus." The punctures 

 on the presternum are feeble and remote, 

 Fig. 114. while those on the metasternum are very 



Neocollyris insignis. dose and fine. 



Length 18-21 millim. 

 Sikkim : Darjiling, Mungphu, Pankabari ; Bhutan • Assam : 

 Khasi Hills ; Burma. 



32. Neocollyris smaragdina, W. Horn. 



Collyris smaragdina, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1894, 

 p. 220. 



Allied to N. insignis, from which it may be known by its 

 smaller size and narrower shape, and by the strongly narrowed 

 head, which has the eyes less prominent, and the forehead less 

 broadly but more deeply excavate ; the pronotum is narrower 

 with the colluin longer and the anterior margin much less reflexed, 

 and the elytra are more slender with the punctures on the anterior 

 half less deep and a little less close towards the base ; the head 

 and pronotum are cyaneous and the elytra greenish, and there is 

 a pitchy-black or brownish patch on the anterior half towards the 

 suture ; the anterior legs are cyaneous or black; the antennae and 

 the rest of the legs are wanting in the specimen described by 

 Dr. Horn. 



Length 17 millim. 



Sikkim : Mungphu, Kurseong ; Bhutan. 



