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the basal angles being wider apart than the width of the broadest 

 part, conical for two-thirds of its length, with the sides gently 

 rounded, and then passing gradually into a slender pronotal 

 collum, which is not strongly reflexed at the apex, upper surface 

 finely strigose, or almost smooth, underside very finely punctured 

 and pilose ; elytra long, parallel-sided, with the shoulders bluntly 

 marked, closely strongly and more or less evenly punctured 

 throughout, somewhat rugosely so towards the suture fur most 

 of their length, the sculpture being almost as strong at the base 

 as at middle, rather finer at the apex, especially in the female ; 

 there is a short luteous band in the centre and a reddish streak 

 at the shoulders (both often more or less obsolete), and the 

 extreme apical margin is whitish testaceous ; metasternum very 

 finely punctured, more or less pilose ; legs red, with the tarsi and 

 tibiae more or less pitchy or brownish, the apical portion of the 

 posterior tibia? and the tarsi, except the apex, whitish testaceous. 

 Length 13 millim. 



JaYA ; tStlMATBA.] 



50. Neocollyris ceylonica, Chanel, 



Colh/ris ceylonica, Chaudoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1864, p. 529 : 

 W. Horn, Spol. Zeyl. ii, 1904, p. 9. 



Of a bright olivaceous green colour, with the palpi mostty 

 pitchy ; antennae as in N. arnoldi ; head narrower than in the 

 latter species, with the sides behind the eyes a little rounder ; 

 pronotum of much the same shape, but less widened behind, and 

 more obsoletely constricted at the base, upper surface obsoletely 

 strigose transversely ; elytra shorter, narrower, and more shining, 

 with the shoulders less marked, more finely punctured, with the 

 punctures towards the base and apex evidently finer and scarcer, 

 the central part being rugose, and the apex being smooth ; an 

 abbreviated yellow central fascia and a red line behind the 

 shoulders are present, and the apex is more broadly testaceous. 



Length 12J millim. 



Ceylon. 



51. Neocollyris plicicollis, W. Horn. 



Neocollyris plicicollis, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1901, p. 63. 



Allied to N. arnoldi and also to N. variicornis and N. punctatella; 

 it differs from the first-named species in having the antennae a 

 little thickened externally (as in N. subtilis, Chaud., &c), with 

 the first five joints blue-black and the rest dark fuscous ; not 

 broader between the eyes, but with the frontal impression of 

 about the same breadth between the parallel furrows, and only 

 carinate at the extreme apex ; the eyes are much less prominent 

 and the vertex much less narrowed behind ; the pronotum is a 

 trifle less dilated towards the base, with the posterior portion a 

 little less parallel-sided and slightly less narrowed anteriorly, the 

 upper surface being somewhat more coarsely plicate, and rather 



