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elytra strongly punctate ; the tarsi with a small fourth joint and the 

 claws slightly Avidened in their basal half ; the antennae of the c? 

 elongate and rather stout, that of the $ much shorter. The punc- 

 turing of the prothorax is very coarse and rather close in some of 

 the 2 2 fi'om Kumaon. The Simla specimens were found on the flowers 

 of Castanea vesca. Length 4g-6 mm. 



2, Dasytes mutahilis, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, very shining, aeneous or nigro-aeneous, the palpi and 

 antennae (except at their apices), legs (tarsal claws excepted), elytra wliolly 

 or iu part (usually with a triangular brassy scutellar patch extending down the 

 suture), and sometimes the entire abdomen in 2 , testaceous; clothed with fine, 

 adpressed, pallid pubescence, the head and prothorax with intermixed long, 

 soft, erect hairs, the elytra with scattered, semierect, flavous setae, the margins 

 fiavo-ciliate. Head closely punctulate, nearly as wide as the prothorax in c? ; 

 antennae rather stout and moderately long iu S > shorter in $ , thickening 

 towards the tip, joints 5-10 subserrate, 11 acuminate-ovate. Prothorax con- 

 vex, a little broader than long, rounded and crenulate at the sides, more 

 narrowed anteriorly in 5 ; densely, rugulosely punctured at the sides, sparsely 

 punctate or almost smooth down the middle of the disc. Elytra wider than 

 the prothorax, parallel to near the apex, the latter rounded ; closely, rather 

 strongly punctate, the interspaces flattened and feebly rugulose ; epipleura very 

 narrow. 



Var, The brassy coloration on the elytra extending nearly or quite to the 

 tip ; the femora and the outer joints of the antennae slightly inf uscate. ( d •) 

 Length 2V^-4 mm. [S 2-) 



Hah. Upper Gumti Valley, W. Almora, and Ivosi River, lianikhet 

 Division of Kumaon {H. G. C. : iii-vi.l9l7, iv.l919, iii.l920). 



A long and variable series, $ $ preponderating. The colour of the 

 elytra and of the $ abdomen is inconstant, as in the somewhat similar 

 S. European and N. African Dasytes fiavescens Gene, an insect I have 

 seen in plenty in Tunis and Algeria. I), mutahilis is nearly allied to 

 D. discreius Gorh., from Cliamba, differing from it in the testaceous 

 legs and antennae, the latter not so stout, the elytra usually in part or 

 entirely testaceous. 



3. Dasytes aeneonitens, n. sp. 



5. Moderately elongate, i-ather broad, ver}^ shjiiiog, aeneous, the antennae 

 and legs (the black tarsal claws excepted) testaceous ; clothed with brownish 

 pubescence intermixed with scattered bristly hairs, which are semierect on the 

 elytra and erect on the head and prothorax ; the head and sides of the pro- 

 thorax densely, rugulosely, the disc of the latter iu one specimen more finely, 

 punctate, the elytra deiiselj', rather strongly punctured. Head, antennae, and 

 prothorax much as in 7). mutabilis, 5; the elytra broader than in the latter, 

 more densely punctured throughout, and each with a tumid space at tlie base 

 near the suture. 



