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Type, D. nifjroi^ectus. 



This genus is a Himalayan representative of Danacaea Kies., man}- 

 s]?ccies of which are known from the Palaearctic region. The equal 

 tarsal claws separate it at once f]'om Danacaea, and the fox'm of the 

 tarsi themselves excludes it from Dast/fes. The pallid coloration of the 

 upper surface and the fine adpressed pubescence give the present insect 

 the facies of an elongate narrow Crjptophagid. Indioclasytes Pic 

 (1916) also wants definite epipleura to the elytra. 



1. Danacaeomimus ni groped us, n. sp. 



Shilling, rufo-testaceous, the eyes, iiieso- and nietasteniuni, and the 

 ventral segments 1-3 or 2 and 3 black, the antennae (the infnscate outer joints 

 excepted), palpi (the partly or wholly black apical joint excepted), legs, and the 

 re.st of the abdomen testaceous, the elytra usually sliglitly infuscate, with the 

 humeri and apex paler, in one specimen entirely testaceous : thickly clothed 

 with fine, pallid or whitish, adpressed pubescence ; the entire upper surface 

 densely, very finely punctate. Head (witli eyes) nearly as wide as the 

 prothorax in cJ, slightly cnrroAver in 9 > the eyes moderately large; antennae 

 rather short, the joints submonilifonn, 5 and 7 distinctly Avider than 6 or 8, 

 9-11 slightly stouter, 9 and 10 tran-sverse. Prothorax moderately convex, 

 longer than broad, sinuously narrowed from the middle forward and obliquely 

 narrowed posteriorly. Elytra parallel, long, much wider than the prothorax, 

 bluntly rounded or subtruncate at the tip. Beneath more shining, very finely 

 punctured, the metasternum almost smooth in the middle. 



Length 2-2^ mm. 



Hah. Eanikhet Division of Kumaon {H. G. C). 



Eight specimens. 



{To be continued.) 



CEITICAL NOTES ON THE HON. H. ONSLOW'S PAPEE, -^MELANISM IN 

 ABRAXAS GBOSSULARIATA var. VARLEYATA.' 



BY a. T. POREITT, F.L.S. 



The Hon. H. Onslow has very kindly sent me a copy of his paper 

 under the above heading, which ajipeared in the " Journal of Genetics," 

 vol. xi. No. 2, September 1921, and which paper was discussed at the 

 last meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh. The paper is a 

 most interesting and valuable contribution to the literature on the subject, 

 for, although so far as the breeding results are concerned, it contains 

 nothing that has not for many years been known to those specially inte- 

 rested in Abraxas (jrossulariata. the facts have never previously been 



