100 f^ray, 



Four males and tliree females, the description Iteing taken from a 

 pair captured on the same date. The c? has one of the antennal joints 

 dilated somewhat as in Laius and Myrmecodes, and the eWtra simple. 

 The 2 is separahle from the same sex of the allied forms by the wholly 

 black head. In one S the Avhitish space on the front of the head is 

 depressed, hut this is due to immaturity. 



Hypebaeus cerastes, n. sp. 



S . Very like H. sjnnicornis ; the head larger and broader, wider than the 

 prothorax, .sliglitly liollowed between the eyes, whitish, with a transverse 

 curved blackish line between t!ie eyes behind; antennae (fio. l2) with joint 1 

 very broad, C(Mnpressed, curved upv.ards and horn-like at the apex, joint 2 

 articulated to it at about the middle of the apical margin, 2 small, shorter than 

 3,4-10 seriate; the eh'tni with a connnon heart-shaped seutelhir patch and 

 a very broad, complete, subapical fascia, black, simply roiuided at the tip ; the 

 posterior tibiae straighter. 



J. Head smaller than in cT, not wider than the prothorax, the dark basal 

 portion a little shorter; antennae as in H. spi7u'c<)r?iis •. the black subapii-al 

 ascia reduced to a large oval patch on tlie disc of each elytron. 



Length If nnn. (J $ •) 



Hah. S. (5arhwal, alt. 6500 [ 6 ], and W. Bhatkot, alt. 4000 ft., 

 hoth in Kumaon (II. G. C). 



One pair. Extremely like II. spiniconiis. but with very differently 

 formed d -antennae, joint 1 resembling a curved compressed horn when 

 viewed in profile. The broad head in the same sex is suggestive of that 

 of Troglops. 



Attains hengaloisis. 



5 . Attains hengalensis et var. violaceipennis Pic, L'Echange, 



xxiii, p. 171 (1007). 



"Eobustus et sat latus, post medium dilatatus, nitidus, griseo-pubescenti- 

 bus, rufo-testaceus, oculis, pectore, femoribus 4-posticis pro parte nigris, elytris 

 viridi-caeruleis. Long. 6 mm." [type]. 



(5 . Anterior tarsal joint 2 produced at the apex above into a long spur- 

 like process which nearly reaches the tip of the following joint ; posterior 

 tibiae (fig. 8) very broadly, subangularly dilated externally towards the apex, the 

 dilated portion longitudinally excavate above, strongly hooked at tip, and with 

 a truncated projection at about the middle behind. 



Hah. Bengal {type of Fie], Murree [var. violaceipennis : $]; 

 Pindar Valley, Almora, alt. SOOO-11,000 ft. {R. O. C: 6 2) ; " E. 

 India " {Capt. Boys, in Hits. Oxou. : $ , var.) ; India (ex coll. Bowring, 

 in Mas. Brit. : § , var.). 



