1920.] 239 



the type. M, Obertliiir, however, has kindly examined it at my request, and 

 tells me that it is not deeply emarg-inate. The two species, therefore, although 

 agreeing closely in many points, belong to different groups. 



YuNi>JAN, Djoukoula (Coll. H. de Toiizalin) : two examples, J 2 • 



Clilaenius costiger Chaud., race hJiamoensis Bates (Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Gen. 1892, p. 311). 



I do not know why Bates thought it worth while to describe C. bhamoensis 

 as a distinct species. At the end of his description he says that it differs from 

 the form of C. costiger fduud on the Yang-tsze and in Cochin China " in little 

 except the colour of the legs." After examining a number of specimens from 

 China, Jnpan, and Indo-Chiiia, and comparing them with cotvpes oi bhavwends 

 from tlie Fea collection, I quite concur in this, and can only add, as a further 

 slight point of difference, that in the Burmese examples joints 2 and 3 of the 

 antennae are much darker. 



Clilaenius costiger Chaud,, race almorae, nov. 



T>ength 18-20 mm. Mr. H. G. Champion has lately taken, at a high 

 elevation in the Himalayas, a form of this species which I think deserves a 

 name. It is a little smaller than both the type form and race bhamoensis, and 

 in the S certainly a little less elongate. The tibiae and joints 2-3 of the 

 antennae are ])iceous, as in bhamoensis, the prothorax coppery, the elytra black, 

 without any trace of of the greenish reflections often to be seen in the other 

 two. especially near the base. The joints of the antennae are a little shorter, 

 the protliorax wider and more rounded at sides, the pubescence shorter and 

 less evident. In the $ the elytra are less opaque, and the puucturation of the 

 striae can therefore be more clearly seen. 



United Peotinces : W. Almora Division, Sunderdhunga, alt. 8000- 

 12000 ft., June 1919 : six examples, d $ {S. O. Champion). The 

 type has been presented by Mr. Champion to tire British Museum. 



Clilaenius (Epomis) amarae, n. sp. 



l.eno-th 20-22 mm. ; width 8- 8'5 mm. Black, shiny, fiiiutl}^ iridescent 

 beneath ; upperside violet-blue, head with greenish reflections, intervals of 

 elytra black along middle, with a faint green reflection (when seen in a good 

 li-lit) ; a border of nearly uniform width round the elytra, extending to stria 8 

 and including epipleurae, a very narrow border to ventral surface, legs (tarsi 

 darker), antennae, palpi, and labrum yellow-red. Elytra shortly pubescent 

 along striae and margin. Head (3'6 mm. wide) convex, minutely rugose, 

 moderately and not closely punctate, middle of front nearly and clypeus quite 

 smooth, finely striate near eyes, which are prominent ; antennae slender, 

 joint 3 half as long again as 1, last joint of palpi strongly dilated iu d , less so 

 in 5 , left mandible striate at apex. Prothorax transverse, but nearly quad- 

 rate (4-5x5 mm.), flat but declivous to front angles, truncate in front, base 

 emargiuate in middle but oblique at sides, sides finely bordered, very little 

 rouuded, base a little wider than apex, all angles obtuse and more or less 



