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CICINDELIDiE. 



in having the labrum a little longer and the central teeth some- 

 what more produced ; the head is shorter, with the vertex broader, 

 and the frontal sulci not parallel, but converging behind ; there 

 is a very deep frontal fovea, and the front part of the forehead 

 is distinctly carinate ; the pronotum is a little more slender, with 

 the frontal collum somewhat narrower, and the posterior part 

 less parallel (iu JSf. cqncalis, however, this is very variable) ; the 

 upper surface is smooth with faint traces of striation in front, 

 the shoulders are a little more distinct, aud the elytra have the 

 plicate part much the same, but the anterior and posterior portions, 

 especially at the sides, are less suddenly minutely punctured ; 

 the pronotum (except a central line and the base and apex), the 

 episterna of the pro- and meso-sternum, the hinder part of the 

 cheeks, and the whole of the elytra, except the impressed punc- 

 tures and the anterior part of the suture, are more or less rufous ; 

 the posterior tibiae are rufescent cyaneous, and the first three 

 joints of the posterior tarsi testaceous ; the metasternum is punc- 

 tured in the centre, and sparingly at the lateral angles. 



Length 17 millim. 



Assam : Ivhasi Hills. 



I insert this species on Dr. Horn's authority, but, considering 

 the variability of the group in several of the characters named, 

 I think that it requires more confirmation. 



46. Neocollyris sarawakensis, Thorns. 



Collyris saraicakensis, Thomson, Arch. Ent. i, 1857, p. 133; Chau- 

 doir, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. 531, pi. 9, fig. 22. 



Var. Collyris dohertyi, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1895, 

 p. 83. 



An elongate, parallel-sided, and rather slightly built species 

 (male more slender than female), of a brownish black or deep 

 castaneous brown colour, or with more or less cyaneous reflection ; 

 head long, with the eyes large and prominent; antenna? dark, 

 long; labrum rather small, semicircular, with strong teeth, fore- 

 head depressed between the eyes, with the intermediate space 

 flat, carinate in front between the short frontal sulci, which reach 

 to about the middle of the eyes, the sides between the eyes with 

 strongly raised strigae ; vertex short behind eyes ; pronotum long 

 and slender, not strongly impressed at base, conico-cylindrical, 

 with the pronotal collum occupying almost half the length, upper 

 surface, as a rule, strongly and always distinctly strigose trans- 

 versely, underside feebly punctured, almost smooth or with traces 

 of striae ; elytra feebly punctured at base for about one-sixth of 

 their length, as a rule feebly punctured or almost smooth for the 

 posterior third, and the rest strongly plicate ; the space covered 

 by the plication, however, is very variable, and in some specimens 

 hardly occupies more than a quarter of the whole ; the punctuation, 

 also, of the anterior part is sometimes strong, though always 

 scattered ; metasternum strongly pilose, feebly and very closely 



