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44. Neocollyris apicalis, Chaud. 



Colly ris apicalis, Cliaudoir, Rev. Mag. Zool. 18G4, p. 105; id., Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. -517. 



Elongate, narrow, subparallel-sided, and smaller than the pre- 

 ceding species, the female being larger and more widened than the 



male * ; colour variable, front parts 

 cyaneous, with a violaceous or cop- 

 pery reflection ; elytra with the 

 apical third castaneous or blackish 

 cyaneous ; pronotuin very variable, 

 narrow and slightly angled before 

 the collum, or incrassate and abrupt- 

 ly angled, or simply rounded oft* 

 and passing gently into the collum, 

 upper surface smooth and shining ; 

 in the single female specimen I have 

 before me the pronotum is distinctly 

 wider than in the male; elytra sculp- 

 tured much as in N. altera ; meso- 

 sternum very finely punctured over 

 most of its surface ; femora red ; 

 intermediate and posterior tibiae and 

 tarsi dark, posterior tibiae and tarsi 

 either nigro-cyaneous or rufescent. 

 Length 16-18 millim. 

 Assam : Patkai Hills ; South 

 Burma; Malacca; Sumatra. The 

 specimens I have seen are from 

 Singapore. 



Apart from the size, the absence of striation on the pronotum, 

 the somewhat different plication of the centre of the elytra, and 

 the rather finer punctuation of the mesosternum, I can see very 

 little difference between this species and JY. aptera, and these 

 differences are not marked, except the first. Chaucloir (Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Erance, 1864, p. 519) compares it with Colitis tuberculata (also 

 a Malaccan species) with which it has very little in common, the 

 latter being a dark cyaneous-blue species with the dilated portion 

 of the pronotum much more cylindrical and angled, and the elytra 

 strongly and closely punctured throughout, with strong elongate 

 punctuation before apex. The variability of the pronotum in some 

 of the species belonging to this section makes them hard to 

 determine. 



Neocolh/vis apicalis. 



45. Neocollyris foveifrons, W. Horn. 



Neocollyris foveifrons, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1905, p. GO. 

 This species is closely allied to N. apicalis, from which it differs 



* Cliaudoir says : " Elytra maris paullo iatiora," evidently in error. 



