NEOCOLLYRIS. 



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dilated behind, with the shoulders angulate, anterior third very 

 sparingly punctured, smooth and shining, intermediate third very 

 strongly plicate, the interstices being much raised, posterior third 

 with strong, more or less elongate, punctures, which become obsolete 

 towards the apex ; mesosternum smooth, except at the sides, which 

 are distinctly punctured ; metasternum very finely punctured ; 

 legs red, more or less pitchy, variable in colour, the posterior 

 tarsi being red with the apical joint black. 



LengtH 20-23 millim. 



Burma : Karen Hills. 



The shape of the pronotum is somewhat variable, being some- 

 times more elongate and less dilated in the male. 



41. Neocollyris smitlii, Chaud. 



Collyris smitlii, Chaudoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. 518. 

 Collyris macleayi, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1895, p. 81. 



Nigro-cyaneous, with the elytra castaneous at apex, and more 

 or less at base ; head large, with the frontal excavation somewhat 

 more abrupt behind than in the preceding species ; antennae 

 reddish brown, with the base cyaneous ; 

 pronotum not strongly constricted at 

 base, very slightly widened at the sides 

 (in this respect bearing much the relation 

 to JS. fece that A 7 ", insignis bears to N. 

 saphyrina), with the dilated portion 

 gently rounded at the sides and con- 

 stricted into a short collnm, almost 

 smooth, underside with very line punc- 

 tures ; elytra with the shoulders well 

 marked and angular, with very strong 

 plicae in the centre, occupying the central 

 third, punctuation towards base and apex 

 very scanty, and sometimes more or less 

 obsolete ; episterna of metasternum dis- 

 tinctly punctured over most of their 

 surface, more strongly so at the sides ; 

 legs red, more or less pitchy. 

 /' *y Length 22-23 millim. 



Fig U8. E. Bengal: Dacca; Assam: jNaga 



Neocollyris smithi. Hills; Burma : Pegu District ; also re- 



corded doubtfully from Tibet. 

 The sculpture of the elytra and the metasternum will at once 

 distinguish this species from N. fece. In the specimens I have 

 seen, the shape of the pronotum in these species is almost 

 identical, except for the less constriction at the base in N. smithi. 



