72 [March, 



witli a shorter and broader head, closely puiictulate, I'oughly asperate- 

 punctate elytra, etc. The sexual characters of Euloho)tyx were noted 

 hy Schilsky but not by Kraatz. The c? anterior tarsi are pectinate as in 

 the same sex of Lohonyx, Idyia* and J^rionocerus. 



Enlohonyx exas2Jerafus, n. sp. 



Elonprale, narrow (cT), broader ($), slightly shining above, siiining 

 beneath ; brassj'-cupreoiis, the oral organs, labruni, joints 1-4 of the antennae, 

 the ventral seg■m^'nts 5 and 6, and legs (the infuseate tips of the tarsi excepted) 

 testaceous, the rest of the antennae piceous or blaclc ; sparsely clothed with fine 

 greyish pubescence intermixed with long, pallid, bristly hairs, the hairs on the 

 prothorax directed forwards and those arising from the inferior margins of the 

 elytra forming a close fringe, the elytra also somewhat thickly set witli long- 

 erect blackish setae on their dorsal surface ; the upper surface alutaceous, 

 coriaceo-puuctulate, the prothorax and elytra also roughly asperato-punctate. 

 Head rather short, in (S as wide as, in § narrower than, the prothorax, angu- 

 larly depressed between the eyes, excavate on each side in front ; antennae long- 

 in S , much shorter in 5- Prothorax broader than long, considerably narrower 

 than the elytra in both sexes, more noticeably so in <^ , sulcate on the disc. 

 Elytra long and subparallel in (5 , more elongate and widened posteriorly in 2 • 



(5'. Anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 with a black comb along their inner 

 edge ; ventral segment 6 triangularly emarginate at apex. 



5 . Ventral segment 6 simple, rounded at tip. 



Length 4J-74, breadth 1^-2^ mm. ( J $ .) 



Hab. India, W. Almora (vi.l917) and Sunderdhunga (vi.iyiD) in 

 Kumaon, alt. 7000-12,000 feet (11. G. C). 



Twenty-one specimens, including seven males, one female labelled as 

 having been found on Quercus dilatata. Separable at once from J5/. sericeiis 

 hy the somewhat closely asperate-punctate (each puncture bearing a 

 blackish erect seta) prothorax and elytra, the shorter and broader head 

 (especially noticeable in S )> the shorter, sulcate prothorax, the sides of 

 which are rounded, and the simple Cth ventral segment in 5 . Lohonyx 

 /lasJtiiiirensisFainu. (1891), from the mountains of Kashmir (FGourais 

 Pass, altitude 7000 feet), which has a similarly asperate upper surface 

 and rounded sides to the prothorax, must be nearly allied to the present 

 species ; but as there are various discrepancies in the rest of the descrip- 

 tion — antennae reaching middle of elytra (suggestive of J ), prothorax 

 not narrower than the elytra (? 5 ), etc, — it would be unsafe to treat 

 these Himalayan insects as conspecific. 



* Cf. Ann. and Mag. Nut. Uist. (9) iii, p. 326 (April 1019). 



