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Hah. ^\. Almora [x.xi.l917] and Kosi River, Eanikhot, alt. 3000- 

 GoOOft., in Kumaon {H. G. C. : iu.ix.l920). 



Found in abundance in moss in streams in W. Almora and "Rani- 

 kliet. This insect has the antennae slender, as in the European 

 L.fontincdis Kies. ; but 'diifers from it in the stronger puncturing of 

 the upper surface, the rather shoi'ter antennae, and the smaller size. An 

 apterous example ( ? ), with longer antennae, a more expanded prothorax, 

 and coarser eljtral sculpture, may represent a second Himalayan species 

 of the genus. The elytra in these insects vary in length according to 

 the development of the wings. 



Malthinus lineafocoUis, n. sp. 



Pitle testaceous, the eyes black, the prothorax with a narrow piceous 

 median line Ccoutinued on to tlie base of the head in two of the specimens), 

 the elytra with the usual yellow spot at the tip. Ilend rather long, broad, 

 transvers^lv convex, feebly punctulate, rapidly, arcnately narrowing behind the 

 eves, the latter moderately lar^e ; antennae long, slender, a little shorter in 2- 

 Prothorax narrow, about as long as broad, closely, feebly punctulate. Elytra 

 narrow in cT , broader in $, shorter than the abdomen (especially noticeable in 

 5), with row.s of fine shallow punctures, which become indistinct and irregular 

 on the apical half. Posterior tibiae of S armed with a triangular tooth on the 

 inner edge beyond the middle. 



Length 3-4L mm. (d?-) 



Hah. W. Almora in Kumaon, and Dudhatoli, Garhwal, alt. 7000- 

 9000ft. {H. G. C: vi.l917). 



Two males and four females, all slightly immature, taken on Quercus 

 dilatata. Not unlike the European M. fasciatus Oliv., uniformly pale 

 testaceous, with the e:^ception of the eyes and the median line on the 

 prothorax, the eyes smaller and the elytra relatively shoiier than in that 

 species ; the postei-ior tibiae of the male toothed as in the same sex of 

 M. haJteatus Suffr. The genus has not apparently been recorded from 

 India. 



Iclitliyurus hiinalaicus, n. sp. 



Nariow, shining, very finely pubescent; head yellow, with the eyes and 

 base black, the black often extending for some distance forwards along the 

 middle and at the sides in 5 ; prothorax yellow, with a transverse, sub- 

 median, black fascia, which has two oblique, inwardly-directed rami on the 

 disc behind and is sometimes extended forward along the sides to the anterior 

 angles ; scutellum and elytra yellow, the latter with a curved stripe along the 

 sides of variable extent black or piceous (the dark coloration not reaching the 

 apex in either sex, or quite reaching the base in J ) ; abdomen bhick or piceous, 

 the apex of segments 1-6 above and beneath, that of 7 in the middle, and the 

 margins to a variable extent, yellow, the rest of the under surface yellow 



