126 [June, 



Head very slightly broader than long, widest at eyes, sides feebly convex. 

 Mandibles 6-dentate. Scapes pass tlie occiput by more than a quarter of their 

 length. Clypeus feebly carinate. Anterior border very sinuate. Kyes Hat, 

 placed above the middle of sides. 



Pronotum broad in front, the shoulders rather prominent and bordered. 

 Base of epiuotnm IJ as long as declivity, saddle-shaped. Scale in profile twice 

 as high as broad, bluntly rounded at top. Fi'oni above it is wider than long. 



Pilosity spnrse, brown-yellow. A slight pubescence on head and gaster 

 Tibiae and scapes without erect hairs. 



Moderately shining. Mandibles shining, with a few punctures and lines 

 at base ; clypeus, cheeks, and the space between the frontal cavinae have small, 

 scattered, irregular punctures. AVliole of head and thorax minutely and closely 

 reticulate and semi-matt ; on sides of thorax and on base of epinotum the 

 sculpture has a more or less transver.-e direction. Scale with extremely fine 

 encircling striae ; caster with even finer transverse striae. Legsmicro.scopically 

 reticiilate-striate. 



A single specimen, fastened, as related on p. 120, to the leg of a 

 jSLjrmecia forficcda, near Healesville, Victoria. The gaster is unfortu- 

 nately somewhat damaged and some legs are missing. It is quite unlike 

 any of the described forms of this subgenus from Australia. The 

 C. (iLf.) cliaJceus Crawley, originally taken at Yallingup, comes nearest 

 this species, but differs princijjally in colour. It has since turned out to 

 be a very abundant species in Western Australia. See Ent. llec. 

 XXX. 5, 1918. 



29 Holland Park Poad, 



London, W. 14. 

 March 1922. 



SOME INDIAN COLEOPTERA (8). 

 BY G. C. CIIA.MPIOX, F.Z.S. 



The eighth contribution of this series contains descriptions of, or 

 notes on, the few known Dasytids inhabiting the Himalaj'a, the Nilgiri 

 Hills, etc., nineteen in all. Three others have already been recorded by 

 me from India, Eulohony.v exaspera/i/s and U. scricens Champ. (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. 1920, pp. 71, 72) and the cosmopolitan Acaitthocnemus 

 nigricans Hope (=^ciliafi/s Ferris) (oj). cif. 1922, pj). 77-79). A 

 peculiar Cis is also described. The species enumerated in this jmper ai'e 



* CoutiiuR'd from ante, p. 7'5. 



