NEOCOLLYRIS. 



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which occupies about one-third of the length, upper surface rather 

 strongly transversely strigose, underside 

 distinctly, though remotely, punctured and 

 pilose ; elytra with the shoulders strongly 

 marked, raised, elytra strongly, evenly, and 

 closely punctured throughout, the punc- 

 tures being more or less rugose at and 

 before the middle and finer at the apex ; 

 metasternum pilose, very finely and 

 closely punctured, except in the middle ; 

 femora red, anterior and intermediate 

 tibiae and tarsi cyaneous, posterior tibiae 

 cyaueous with the apex reddish yellow, 

 tarsi, except apex of joints and the claws, 

 navous. 



Length 19-2-1 millim. 

 Madras : Trivandrum, Travancore, 

 Nilgiri Hills and Anaimalai Hills (An- 

 drewes) ; Bombay : North Kanara (Bell). 

 Recorded doubtfully from Ceylon. 

 Neocollyris andrewesi. Mr. Bell says : — " Very common in June 

 and throughout the rains on the Ghats, 

 perching and hunting on trees only." Mr. H. Leslie Andrewes 

 says:— t; (1) Anaimalais, May, 3000-4000 ft. ; (2) Nilgiris, May, 

 June, July, August, 3000-1000 ft. On herbage. Takes flight very 

 readily. Ouchterlony Valley." 



This species is allied to N. horsfieldi, a rather common Javanese 

 species, but the latter is smaller, with the eyes more prominent, 

 and the space between them strongly strigose at the sides ; the 

 vertex, too, is plainly more contracted behind, and the pronotal 

 collum is evidently more abrupt. 



As the types of the two following species are unique and I 

 have not been able to see them, and as both the authors (Chaudoir 

 and W. Horn) have described them by comparison with JY. arnoldi, 

 it may be well to give a description of this somewhat common 

 Javanese species, w r hich is one of the prettiest and most elegant 

 members of the genus : — 



[N. arnoldi, McLeay, Ann. Jav. i, 1825, p. 10 ; Chaudoir, 

 Ann. Soc. Eut. France, 1864, p. 528, pi. 9, fig. 20. 



An elongate slender and graceful species, of a lighter or darker 

 green or blue colour ; head narrow, but apparently larger by 

 reason of the very prominent eyes, vertex distinctly more narrow 

 behind in the male than in the female, forehead narrow in front, 

 moderately deeply impressed, the impression becoming wider 

 behind, with fine divergent sulci, the space between smooth and 

 shining, very finely strigose at base of eyes ; antennae very long 

 and slender, more or less pitchy and flavescent (in some specimens 

 darker, in others lighter), palpi flavescent ; pronotum very long 

 and slender, rather strongly constricted and impressed at the base, 



