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CICIKDELIDJE. 



This is one of tlie very few species of Colly vis that can be 

 termed common and its variability, as in the case of C. bonelli 

 var. ortygia, tends to show that care should be taken in describing 

 new species. Not only is the colour variable, but the structure 

 also to a certain extent ; in some specimens I have before me the 

 dilated portion of the pronotum is almost spherical, and the front 

 of the dilatation presents traces of distinct angles before the con- 

 striction ; in others the pronotum is much less thickened and the 

 pronotal collum is less abrupt. These specimens appear to be 

 intermediate between N. crassicornis and N. subclavata, and I can 

 see no real specific difference between these two species. 



Mr. Eobinson (Ease. Malayenses, i, Oct. 1903, p. 182) speaks 

 of this insect as "running on leaves and shrubs, and flying rapidly 

 from shrub to shrub." 



" This species appears to inhabit jungle less dense than that to 

 which most of its congeners are restricted. In the environs of 

 Calcutta it is found not uncommonly in uncultivated spots in 

 which shrubs and high herbage have grown up." (Annandale.) 



37. Neocollyris subclavata, Chaud. 



Collyris subclavata, Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1860, p. 289; 



id., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. 495, pi. 7, fig. 3. 

 Yar. Collyris andamana, Bates, Cist. Ent. ii, 1878, p. 335. 



Nearly allied to N. crassicornis, to the more slenderly built 

 specimens of which species it bears a close resemblance ; the an- 

 tennae are somewhat longer, the head a little less rounded, and the 

 eyes somewhat more prominent, according 

 to Chaudoir, but these differences are small 

 and sexual ; the pronotum is, however, 

 decidedly more slender than in the or- 

 dinary specimens of N. crassicornis, the 

 pronotal collum is longer, and the elytra 

 are rather narrower, and more elongate 

 and parallel-sided. 

 Length 16-17 millim. 

 Madras : Nilgiri Hills ; Bengal 

 China. 



Yar. andamana, Bates. 



Larger than the type, of a deep blue 

 or violaceous colour, with the pronotum 

 more dilated before the pronotal collum, 

 and the punctuation of the central portion 

 of the elytra more rugose, with the inter- 

 Fig. 116.— Neecollyris stices more raised. Bates compares the 

 subclavata var. andamana. species with C. crassicornis, and gives as 

 characters distinguishing it from that 

 species, the less dilated and more conical intermediate portion 

 of the pronotum, the more strongly strigose upper surface of 



