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3:3. Neocollyris crassicollis, Chaud. 



Collyris crassicollis, Chaudoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. 497. 



Allied to N. saph.yr.ina, and, apparently, closely resembling that 

 species, from which it is chiefly distinguished by the shape of the 

 pronotum, which is of the same length, but much larger in its 

 dilated part and much less contracted in front, with the basal 

 constriction less marked especially at the sides ; on the elytra 

 there are only two or three plicae in the centre, and at the apex of 

 one of these is sometimes a yellow spot ; the antennae, after the 

 first two joints, are reddish, gradually becoming darker towards 

 the apex. Compared with N. insignis it has the pronotum shorter, 

 thicker, and less contracted in front, and the plicae of the elytra 

 and the sculpture near these more feeble. 



Length 17 millim. 



SlKKIM. 



The type, which Chaudoir refers to (Z. c. p. 497) as being in the 

 British Museum, is missing, as Dr. Horn has also pointed out, 

 and I have not been able to see an example of the species. 



34. Neocollyris saundersi, Chaud. 



Collyris saundersi, Chaudoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. 496. 

 N. saundersi, var. Icetior, W. Horn, Spolia Zeylan. ii (5), 1904, p. 35. 

 N. saundersi, var. continent alis, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 

 1905, p. 295. 



A very distinct species ; black, with a more or less distinct 

 bronze or greenish bronze reflection ; head large and broad in the 

 female with the vertex subquadrate and dilated at the base ; male 

 with the sides contracted gradually before the base ; antennae 

 longer in the male than in the female, dark, reddish brown towards 

 the apex (at least in some specimens) ; frontal excavation large, 

 frontal snlci strong, the space between them flat ; pronotum long 

 and slender, not strongly constricted before the base, then slightly 

 dilated and gradually passing into a rather long pronotal collum, 

 upper surface plainly and more or less strongly strigose, underside 

 also strigose ; elytra very strongly and deeply punctured, scarcely, 

 if at all, rugose in the middle, the sculpture being finer towards 

 the base and apex, but distinct throughout ; apex truncated, more 

 widely so in the female than in the male ; legs dark, with the 

 femora and coxae red ; metasternum very finely punctured at 

 the sides. 



Length 14-17 millim. 



Ceylon : Kandy, Bandarawela. 



Var. laetior, W. Horn. 



Rather smaller, on the average, than the type ; colour above 

 and below subolivaceous, with the head black ; femora and coxae 

 rufous brown ; tibiae either cyaneous or rufo-testaceous ; tarsi 



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