uaz] 14,7 



Var,? cJ, Narrower, greenisli-aeiieous, the antennae (joints 2-4 in part 

 excepted) and femora blacic ; antennae elongate, rather stout, joints 7-10 much 

 longer than broad, 



5. Antennae short, testaceous, joint 1, tips of palpi, and femora in p:at, 

 black. 



Length 3|-3| mm. 



Ilab. Siuni Gad, Garhwal, alt, 4000 ft. [type, $ ] (jl. G C. : 

 vi.l920), N. W. Provinces (ex coll. Andreives : $ ), Tanyra Valley, 

 Punjab, alt, 4500 ft. (Dudgeon : iv.l899 : c? $ , var.). 



Four examples. A close ally of the variable D. mutahilis. The 

 d" and 5 from the Punjab seem to belong to one and the same species : 

 the S is very like D. discretus, but has much longer antennae, the 5 '^^ 

 narrower than the type and has the femora to near the tip and the basal 

 joint of the antennae infuscate. 



4. Dasi/fes discrcfus. 



d" . Dasytes (? AmaiC7'onia) discretus Gorh. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 

 xxxix, p. 323 (1895). 



Ilab. Chamba, Himalaya. 



There are two specimens of this species in the Andrewes collection, 

 one of them marked type, both males. A small, parallel-sided, brassy 

 or brassy-green insect, with rather long, stout, black antennae (joints 2 

 and 3 only obscure-testaceous), infuscate femora, testaceous tibiae and 

 tarsi, and black claws. The tarsal joints 1-3 are stouter than 4, which 

 is very small (as in Dasytiscus Kies.), and the claws are without mem- 

 branous appendages. The apical joint of the maxillary palpi is fusiform, 

 not truncatu at the tij) as stated by Gorhaai. The antennal joints 8-10 

 are as broad as long. 



5. Dasytes scahricollis, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, shining, clothed with pale brownish pubescence 

 intermixed with long erect or semierect hairs ; brassy-green or brassy, the 

 labrum, palpi (except at the tip), antennal joints 2-5 or 6 in part or entirely 

 (the others black), and legs (the black tarsal claws excepted), testaceous; the 

 head and prothorax densely, rugosely (except a narrow smooth space down the 

 disc of the latter in some specimens), the elytra more strongly and uniformly, 

 punctured. Head narrower than the prothorax in both sexes ; antenn.^ie rather 

 stout, thickened outwards, in 5 barely reaching the base of the prothorax, a 

 little longer in d, joints 5-10 triangular. Prothorax convex, slightly broader 

 than long, rounded and creuulate at the sides, more narrowed anteriorly in J 

 than in (S . Elytra comparatively broad, parallel to beyond the middle. 



Length 3-4 mm. 



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