I HO [August. 



for a faint longitudinal strigositj at the apex ; seventh ventral segment with 

 a matted tuft of l)lackish hairs on each side. Legs long and slender. 



Length oi, breadth 1| mm. 

 Hah. W. Almora In Kumaon, alt. 5500 ft. {H. G. C. : viii.1917). 



Deserihed from a single example in perfect condition. Larger and 

 broader than O. hauseri Epp. (1895), and similarly coloured, except that 

 the antennae ai-e wholly black ; differing from that insect in having these 

 organs long and comparatively slender, with a very elongate apical joint, 

 the penultimate dorsal abdominal segment almost smooth (conspicuously 

 strigose and sparsely, finely punctured in O.Jiatiseri), the seventh ventral 

 segment tufted on each side, etc. These two species are highly polished 

 and deep black, with the abdomen and tarsi testaceous or inifo-testaceous. 

 Specimens of O. Jiauser/ were also captured by my son, at Sunder- 

 dhunga, alt. 7000-11,000 ft., in the same province, in June 1919 ; they 

 wei-e found under stones, always in company with Myrniica smytliiesi 

 Forel, the ant having been seen to carry the beetle about on several 

 occiisions ; the type of this beetle was found at Simla, and in the British 

 Museum there is an example of it from the Kanyra Valley. Two other 

 species of the genus have recently been described by Cameron, both from 

 Kan<ly, Ceylon : see Ent. Mo. Mag. Ivi, pp. 96. 97 (April-May 1920). 



Crvptorilm. Mann. 



Cryptohium ocypoides, n. sp. 



J. Robust, rather broad, shining; finely pubescent, and also set with 

 scattered, erect, black, bristly hairs; black, the mouth-parts (the piceous 

 mandibles excepted), palpi, and antennae obscurely rufeseeiit, the legs fusco- 

 testaceous, the tibiae and tarsi piceous; the tibiae hairy and setose ; head, pro- 

 thorax (the smooth median line exceptedj, and elytra densely, rather coarsely, 

 rugosely punctured, the punctures on the anterior portion of the head 

 longitudinally contiueut, the scutellum smooth, the abdomen densely, finely 

 punctate. Head broader than, and about as long as, the prothorax, somewhat 

 oval, widest a little before the base, the eyes moderately large ; mandibles 

 long, strongly tridentate within, blunt at the tip ; antennae slender, long. 

 Prothorax a little longer than broad, sinuously narrowed posteriorly. Elytra 

 shorter than the prothorax, obliquely truncate at the apex, carinate above the 

 lower margin. Sixth visible ventral segment (seventh of Fauvel) very deeply, 

 narrowly, triangularly euiarginate. 



Jjength 16 mm. 



Hah. River Sarda Gorge in Ivmnaon. alt. 1500 ft. {H. G. (L : 



xii.l91S). 



One male. This sjiecies is much larger than any of the described 

 Indian i'njpluhia. ('. clephaf. Faiiv. (1904), from the Xilgiri Hills, for 



