mo.] 245 



joints 2-10 conical, 3 nearly twice as long as 2, G-lO graduallv becoming' 

 shorter and stouter, 11 acuminate-ovate, 1 tliickened. Protliorax strongly 

 transverse, much wider than the head, arcuately dilated anteriorly and sinuously 

 narrowed beliiud the middle, the hind angles rectangular, the margins rather 

 broadly explanate ; the disc interruptedly sulcate, deeply, obliquely bifoveate 

 before the base, and also broadly excavate laterally at about the middle. Elytra 

 wider than and more than twice the length ot" the protliorax, rounded at the 

 outer apical angle and truncate at the apex, leaving four or five abdominal seg- 

 ments exposed. Abdomen rapidly narrowed to the conical apex. Anterior 

 tibiae of J' sharply, triangularly dilated at about the middle beneath. 



Length 4-4J, breadth 1 1-2 mm. ( d" $ .) 



Hab. W. Almora in Kumaon (R, G. C. : X.191S). 



Three males and two females. 



Geodromicus cvassipalpis, n. sp. 



Broad, depressed, closely pubescent, shining, black, the tarsi and mandibles 

 rufescent or rufo-testaceous ; head, prothorax, and elytra densely, finely, the 

 abdomen minutely, punctate. Plead rather broad, deeply, transversely excavate 

 in the middle between the eyes and narrowly subangularly extended laterally 

 behind them, the eyes comparatively large, the ocelli minute or obsolete ; man- 

 dibles sharply bidentate within ; maxillary palpi stout, joint 3 conical, much 

 thickened at the apex, 4 very short, about half the length of 3 ; antennae 

 rather slender, long, nearly reaching the apical margin of the elytra. Prothorax 

 much wider than the head, transversely subquadrate, explanate and sharply 

 margined at the sides, the latter rounded anteriorly and sinuouslj' converging 

 towards the base, the hind angles rectangular, the anterior angles obtusely 

 angulate, the disc longitudinall}^ sulcate in the centre at the base. Elytra 

 broad, nearly three times the length of, and much broader than, the prothorax, 

 widening to beyond the middle and then rounded to the apex, which is trun- 

 cate, leaving four abdominal segments exposed. Fourth joint of intermediate 

 and posterior tarsi produced into a long narrow lobe beneath the iifth. Tarsal 

 claws long. 



J. Anterior tarsal joints 1-4 dilated, 2-4 bilobate. Median lobe of the 

 aedeagus long, broad, hollowed towards the apex beneath, and rather abruptly 

 pointed at the tip ; tegmen with an extremely long, slender, fiagelliform process 

 on each side. 



Length 5-7, breadth 2f-3; nun. ( J $ .) 



Ilab, Smiderhunga in Kumaon, alt. 12.000 ft. (//: G. C). 



Found in abundance along the banks of rajt'd streams, in the vicinity 

 of the Pindar glacier, in June 1919. Larger and broader than tlie J-'alae- 

 arctic representatives of the genera Geodromicus and Ili/(/ro(feus, 

 agreeing with the former in having a short apical joint to the maxillary 

 palpi and with the latter in the flattened prothorax, etc. ; but the liead 

 is not swollen and prolorged behind the eyes as in the last-named genu.s. 

 The ocelli, the presence of which is one of the mark.>j of distinction of 



