1922.] 151 



12. Dasytes aurescens, n. sp. 



2 . Elongate, widened posteriorly, shining, brilliant aeneous or aeneo- 

 piceous, the antennae (the infuscate joints 6-11 excepted), palpi, and legs 

 testaceous; sparsely clothed with rather long, fine, decumbent, pallid hairs, a 

 few of those on the head and prothorax erect ; the head and prothorax very 

 sparsely, finely punctate, the punctures on the latter becoming- coarser towards 

 the sides, the elytra alutaceous, finely, sballowly, and not very closel^^ punctate 

 Head short, rather small, feebly bifoveate anteriorly ; antennae moderately 

 long, joints 5-10 triangular, about as long as broad. Prothorax transverse, 

 convex, rounded at the sides. Elytra broader than the prothorax, widening 

 to near the apex, the apices conjointly rounded, the lateral margins explanate 

 and conspicuous as seen from above. Legs long ; tarsi slender, the clawa 

 equal, rather long, widened in their basal half. 



Length 3|-3i mm. 



Hah. Ranikhet and W. Alnioi-a Divisions of Kumaon (ff. Q. C). 



Two specimens. The slender tarsi and explanate elytral margins 

 separate B. aurescens from the other species of the genus here noticed. 

 It may have to be removed from Dasytes when the 6 is found. The 

 apical joint of the maxillary palpi is fusiform. D. gorhami Pic (1911), 

 from Pegu, seems to have similarly expanded lateral margins to the 

 elytra. 



Cis Latreille. 

 Cis fascicidosus, n. sp. 



Elongate, robust, convex, snbcylindrical, moderately shining ; blackish- 

 brown, the labrum, palpi, antennae (the slightly infuscate 3-jointed club 

 excepted), and tarsi testaceous : thickly clothed with short, stiff", brownish, 

 erect hairs, which (as seen under the microscope) arise in email groups or 

 clusters from the punctures on the upper surface ; the entire upper surface very 

 closely, rather finely punctured, the narrow interspaces alutaceous. Head 

 ratlier small, in one specimen (? S ) with a raised transverse line between the 

 antennae, behind which is a transverse groove. Protharax broader than long, 

 parallel-sided at the base, arcuately narrowed anteriorly. Elytra elongate, 

 parallel to beyond the middle. 



Length 3i-4i, breadth l^-lf mm. 



Hal. W. Almora Division of Kumaon (//. G: G. : iii, iv.l917, 

 iii.1919). 



Seven specimens, the sexes not certainly identified. An unusually 

 large, convex, elongate form, with the general facies of an Anobiid and 

 the rough appearance of a ITeiidecatomtiS, this being due to the 

 abundant erect, chaffy, fasciculate pubescence partly hiding the 

 sculpture. Ois indicus and madurensis Pic (1916) are also rather large 



