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(i-eseinl)llna Phi]onthus cyanipennh F. in this respect), Q. hima 

 laijicns Bernli., has been sent in abundance from various localities in 

 Alraora. 



Latlrohinm semh.aerulenm Cam., var. oeltreonotatum, n. 



Lnthrohiinn semiccwndeum Cam. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1921, p. 274. 



Var. Elytra each with a large ochreous apical patch, sometimes extending, 

 forward to the middle. ° 



^ Hah. R. Sarda Gorge [xii.1918] and W. Almora and Ranikhet 

 Divisions of Kumaon [vi.l917] {H. Q. C). 



Amongst a series of L. setnicaeruleum sent from Kumaon, there are 

 four specimens with a large ochreous patch at the apex of the elyti-a, 

 differing in no other way from the type. 



Pseudohium laevivenfre, n. sp. 



Narrow, shining, sparsely clothed with fine, semierect liairs : rufous or 

 pieeous, the elytra usually darker tlian the prothorax, and invariably with a 

 narrow flavour space at the apex, the abdomen black, the antennal joints 

 1 and 2, the palpi, and legs (the darker femora excepted) rufous or testaceous 

 Head elongate, wider than and about as long as the prothorax, impressed with 

 rather coarse, scattered punctures; antennae long, joints 2 and 3 lonoer than 

 those followmg, 4-10 subequal in length. Prothorax elongate, narrow ; with 

 a row of closely-packed punctures along each side of the rather broad, smooth, 

 median space, and some scattered irregularly distributed punctures at the 

 sides. Elytra as long as and much broader than the prothorax : with rows of 

 rather coarse punctures separated on the disc by smooth, sharply raised, 

 narrow lines, the flavous apical margin almost impunctate. Abdomen very 

 finely, sparsely punctate, the interspaces smooth and shining. 



6- Sixth ventral segment deeply triangularly emargiiiate. 



Length 4^-5 mm. 



Hub. Swal R. Division [ii.l919], Eanikhet and E. and W. Divisions 

 [x.1918] of Almora, Kumaon {H. G. C). 



Five specimens. A form of the Mediterranean P. lahile Er., 

 differing from a series of that insect before me (captured by myself in 

 Corsica, Sardinia, the Eastern Pyrenees, and Algeria) l.y tliei'r larger 

 size; the more coarsely striato-punctate, costate elytra; and the 

 sparsely jnmctured, polished abdomen. The abdomen' in P. labile, 

 viewed under the microscope, is extremely finely shagreened (and in 

 consequence less shining) and the puncturing is closer. 



{To he continued.) 



