130 [J""^' 



feebly eniarginate at the apex, the aedeagus stout, })ointed at the tip. 

 The length varies from 3f-5 mm. 



Found in numbers in Almora and at Mvissoorie. 



AMAriiOiNiA Westwood. 



Amauronia westwoodi, n. sp. 



Elongate, narrow, sliining', clotlied witli rather co.irse, loi)g, decuniLent, 

 greyish pubescence, which in fresh specimens of the S is pure wliite on the 

 anterior half of the head and condensed into a small patch on each side along 

 the inner margin of the eyes ; brassy-hlack, the head (a large transverse space 

 on the vertex excepted), palpi, antennae, prothorax (a broad median vitta 

 excepted), and legs testaceous, the eyes black ; the head and prothorax finely, 

 the elytra closely, rather strongly, roughly punctate. Head (with the large 

 eyes) broader than the prothorax in $ , of about the same width in 5 ; 

 antennae moderatel}' long, slender, thickened towards the tip, jiiiut 11 oval, 

 stout, nearly as long as 9 and 10 united; terminal joint of maxillary palpi very 

 large, securiform, that of the labial pair oblong, subsecuriform. Prothorax 

 trans Tersely subquadrate, narrowed anteriorly in J, and slightly so towards 

 the base. Elytra much wider than the prothorax, moderately long, subparallel 

 to beyond the middle in S- Tarsal joints 1-4 equal in width and gradually 

 decreasing in length, the claws with a narrow, free membranous lobe at the 

 base. 



Length 2ii-o mm. 



Hah. AV. Almora and Ivanikliet Divisions of Kumuon {II. G. C. 

 iii.1919, etc.). 



Twelve specimens. Differs from the type of the genus, A. sithaotea 

 Westw., from Corfu, in the testaceous front of the head and sides of the 

 prothorax, the much broader securiform ajjical joint of the maxillary 

 palpi, the more slender, testaceous antennae, and the less rounded sides 

 of the prothorax. The structural details of the genus were figured by 

 Westwood in 1839. The Himalayan Dusytes discretus, queried by 

 Grorham as belonging to Amauronia, has a small fourth joint to the 

 tarsi and a narroAV fusiform apical joint to the maxillary palpi ; it is here 

 included under Dasytes. 



Daxacaeomimus, n. gen. 



Labrum short ; joint 4 of maxillary palpi narrow, long, subfusiform ; 

 antennae ll-jointed, 9-11 wider than those preceding; head short, tlie broad 

 intra-ocular space parallel-sided ; eyes oval, not prominent, lateral; prothorax 

 oblong ; elytra parallel, without definite epipleura ; abdomen with live segments 

 exposed; tibiae slender ; tarsi with joints 1-4 short, subequal in width, the 

 claws equal, short, widened at the base ; bodj' as in Danacaea, elongate, closely 

 pubescent. 



