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CICINDELIDjE. 



39. Neocollyris "bipartita, Fleut. 



Collyris bipartita, Fleutiaux, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1897, p. 24 ; 

 W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1901, Beiheft, p. 67. 



Elongate, enlarged behind, black, with the posterior part of the 

 elytra reddish ; antennae black, with the intermediate joints ringed 

 with red, feebly thickened at the apex ; pronotum thicker and 

 more convex than in N. orichalcina ; elytra very coarsely punc- 

 tured in the middle, more finely towards the base and apex, the 

 punctures being distinct and elongate at the apex ; legs red, 

 with the base and apex of the femora and tibiae, and the tarsi, 

 dark. 



Dr. Horn (I. c.) says that he has examined the single specimen 

 on which M. Eleutiaux described this species, and that instead of 

 being a male, 22 mm. in length, as stated in the description, it is 

 a female of 16 mm. ; it differs, he says, from all the species known 

 to him in the very coarse sculpture of the elytra, which is less 

 gradual than usual on the anterior sixth part ; this coarse sculp- 

 ture is continued to just before the middle ; in the middle it 

 becomes irregular and forms somewhat slight folds or plicae ; it is 

 somewhat finer behind, but the longitudinal impressions on the 

 posterior portion are very marked (" vor der Spitze ganz auf- 

 fallend tiefe Langs-Eindriicke ! ") 



" India." 



From A 7 , orichalcina the species differs in its thicker thorax and 

 less thickened antennae, and from N. few by its less elongate form, 

 natter forehead between the eyes, much shorter pronotum (which 

 therefore appears thicker behind), and above all by the more 

 coarsely punctured elytra, which have the central plicae fewer and 

 less close. 



There is a specimen in Fry's collection in the British Museum 

 labelled " Karen Mts., Burmah " (Doherty), which I think must 

 be referred to this species. 



40. Neocollyris fese, W. Horn. 



Collyris fece, W. Horn, Ann. Mus. Genova, 1893, p. 373. 



A large species, cyaneous black, with the elytra more or less 

 tinged with castaneous or reddish brown, the colour being usually 

 lighter behind the middle; head large, subquadrate, with the 

 frontal excavation between the parallel sulci deep and flat and 

 carinate in front; antennae rather long, dark at the base, joints 

 3 and 4 ringed with red, 5-11 rufo-testaceous ; pronotum elon- 

 gate, strongly constricted and impressed at the base, the inter- 

 mediate dilated portion being parallel-sided, not broader than the 

 base, and more or less distinctly angled externally before the 

 rather short, but distinct, pronotal collum, the apex being reflexed 

 and cup-shaped, upper surface almost smooth, underside with 

 large scattered punctures ; elytra subparallel-sided, or slightly 



