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size, were also received fronr liim ; tliese lalier are apparently females. 

 A very small, shining, finely punctured insect, not unlike the European 

 J£. atricapilla Waterh. in colour ; but less elongate, with more slender 

 legs and pal})i, a shorter prothorax, and numerous rows of tine pvnietures 

 on the elytra. In one comparatively large exami)le ( 5 ) the pro- 

 thoracic marking is ahnost obsolete, and the head and elytral margins 

 are reddish. 



Malohonyx sericcus, n. sp. 



Elongate, narrow and rather shininj^- in J, duller, broader, and widened 

 posteriorly in $; metallic green, brassy, or cupreous, tlie or;d organs, labruiu, 

 joints 1-4 of the antennae, the ventral segments 5 and 6 at least, and legs (tlie 

 more or less infuscate or black tarsi excepted) testaceous, the rest of the 

 antennae black ; very sparsely clothed with fine greyish puliescence intermixed 

 with scattered long, erect, pallid, bristly hairs, the hairs on the prothorax 

 directed I'orwai'ds and those arising from the inferior margins of tlie elytra 

 forming a close fringe; the upper surface sericeo-alutaceous, the head almost 

 smooth in front, the elytra with widely scattered small asperate punctures, 

 which become more distinct near the suture, and an indication of faint raised 

 lines on the disc, the prothoracic and elytral margins crenulate. Head long, 

 narrow, angularly depressed between the eyes, and excavate on each side in 

 front; antennae moderately h)ng in c?, shorter in $, joints 3 and 4 subequal 

 in length, longer than 2 and shorter than 4. Prothorax about as long as broad, 

 slightly rounded at the sides. Elytra elongate, much wider than the prothorax, 

 broader, longer, and less parallel in $ . 



c? . Anterior tarsal joints 1-3 with a black comb along their inner edge ; 

 ventral segment 6 triangularly emarginate at apex (the long, spoon-shaped, 

 apically -cleft tegmen partly exposed in one specimen); median lobe of aedeagus 

 abruptly narrowed towards the tip, the distal portion slender. 



5. Ventral segment 6 with a broad, raised, parallel-sided, pallid space 

 occupying about the central third, this space becoming convex laterally, 

 depressed down the middle, and subtruncate at tip. 



Length 5-7^, breadth l|-2 mm. ( J 2 .) 



Hah. India, N.W. Himalaya {Mas. Brit. : $ ), W. Almora in 

 Kumaon {R. G.C.: 6 2)- 



A long and variable series, including a pair still " in copula," mostly 

 taken in Kumaon in March 1918. This insect must be nearly related to 

 E. haemorrhoidalis Schilsky (in Kiister's Kafer Europa's, xliii, 12, 

 190G), from Kashmir; but the head is more elongate, and the vestiture 

 of the elytra (which is easily abraded) is wholly pale (without erect black 

 hairs intermixed), the elj'tral surface nmst also be much smoother, the 

 asperate piligerous punctures being small, widely scattered, and not very 

 conspicuous, except near the suture, the ver^' fine sculpture giving it a 

 silky appearance. E. turkestunicus Kraatz (1882), is a larger insect,. 



