NEOCOLLYRIS. 



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long and slender, metallic, with the knees and basal portion of the 

 femora brownish or brownish testaceous, and the trochanters 

 lighter testaceous ; underside dark, smooth and shining, with the 

 abdominal segments very finely punctured and duller towards the 

 apex or in the centre. 

 Length 14| millim. 



Madras : Nilgiri Hills (H. Leslie Andrewes). 



This is a very pretty and elegant species ; in general structure 

 and shape of pronotum it resembles N. saundersi, from which it 

 may be at once known by its very much liner sculpture ; from 

 JSf. arnoldi, and allied species, it may be distinguished by its less 

 prominent eyes and the distinct transverse striation of the 

 pronotum. 



36. Neocollyris crassicornis, Dej. 



Collytis crassicornis, Dejean, Spec. Gen. i, 1825, p. 166; Schmidt- 

 Goebel, Faun. Col. Birm. 1846, p. 12 ; Chaudoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 France, 1864, p. 494, pi. 7, tig. 2. 



C oily r is pleuritica, Schmidt-Goebel, Faun. Col. Birm. 1846, p. 13. 



Collyris yollenhovii, Chaudoir, op. cit. p. 495. 



Variable in colour, blue, violaceous, bright green, cyaneous black 



or black ; antennae dark, considerably 

 thickened towards the apex ; head 

 large, vertex subquadrate, smooth 

 \ \ J J* and convex, sides a little more con- 



\ ^bflj/ ff tracted behind in the male, frontal 



excavation deep, slightty convex in 

 the middle, the intermediate space 

 bounded by two deep sulci, and a very 

 distinct transverse impression behind; 

 pronotum strongly constricted at the 

 base, and then more or less strongly 

 dilated, the dilated part passing off 

 more or less abruptly into a distinct 

 pronotal collum, upper surface more 

 or less distinctly strigose, under sur- 

 face remotely punctured; elytra very 

 strongly punctured, more closely and 

 rugosely in the middle, with elongate 

 punctures behind ; tibiae and tarsi 

 dark, femora, except apex, red; meso- 

 and metasternum finely punctured ; 

 apophysal processes in female sharp 

 and scarcely divergent. 

 Length 15-18 millim. 

 Apparently widely spread over the greater part of Continental 

 India ; Ceylon ; Madras : Anaimalai Hills, Gopduka Island, 

 Chilka Lake, Ganjam District ; Bengal : Calcutta, Eanchi, 

 Maldah, Chota Nagpur ; Assam : Sibsagar ; Burma ; Siam ; 

 China; Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra; Java. 



Fig. 115. — Xeocollyris crassi- 

 cornis, with apophysal 

 processes of female. 



