202 iSeptember, 



Three specimens. A form o£ D. tortuosus, a fairly long series of 

 which has been examined, with the vorticose elytral sculpture almost as 

 fine and dense as in D. lohifjerns, which is a much larger, similarly 

 metallic insect, with strongly bilobed fourth tarsal joint, longer limbs, 

 and a large head. The smaller head, and the denser, finer puncturing of 

 the upper surface (the abdomen excepted), separate D. suhforftiosus 

 from D. earner oni, exam])les of which were taken at the same localit}'. 



Hypostexus Rey. 

 S. flavovlttatiis Champ. (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1920, pp. 165, 174), 

 W. Almora. — Three additional specimens of this insect, taken at Bhat- 

 kot, in the Ranikhet District, are now before me. They differ from the 

 single example described in having the flavescent submarginal vitta of 

 the elytra reduced to a short, oblique streak. 



a. flexuosus Champ. {Joe. cit.), W. Almora. — Subsequently sent in 

 abundance from the Kanikhet Division of Almora, these specimens 

 having the yellowish sinuate elytral markings well developed, as in tha 

 type. 



GrEODKOMICUS Kedt. 



G. crassipcdpis Champ. (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1920, pp.241, 245), type 

 taken at Sunderdhunga. — My son writes to say that neai'ly all his speci- 

 mens were captured flying over the glaciers at an elevation of about 

 14,000 ft. or along the streams 2000 ft. lower down ; two or three only 

 were taken on the Pindar. 



Additional particulars regarding various other Staphylinidae have 

 now been received (17.viii.l921) : — 



Omaliiim almorense Champ. (/. c. p. 241). — On Berheris flowers. 



Philorhimim JJoricola Champ. (/. c. p. 242). — On Berheris flowers. 



Pliloeonomus pinicoJa Champ. (/. c. ]). 242). — The Tanakpur 

 examples were found under the bark of miscellaneous broad-leaved trees. 



Ampliicliroum pindarense Champ. (/. c. pp. 243, 244). — The name 

 of the flowering plant should have been Symplocos crataegoides, not 

 Crataegus. 



Eudeliplirum gracilipalpe Champ, (pjj. 244, 245). — The specimens 

 of this insect were taken from moss at Siahidevi, W. Almora, alt. 6000 ft, 



PsEPHExrs Hald. 



PsepJiemis tenuipes, n. sp. 



Oblong-oval, broad, widened posteriorly, flattened above, thickly clothed 

 with fine silky pubescence; brownish-piceous, the twe basal joints of the 



