AA [February, 



A male from Almora, agreeing with the type, except in the greener, 

 non-violaeeous colour of the upper surface. The following characters, 

 fciken from the two specimens before me, supplement the author's 

 description : — Fourth tarsal joint produced beneath the fifth into a 

 single narrow lobe (formed by a prolongation of the outer portion of 

 the emarginate apex), which is clothed at the tip with a pencil of long 

 hairs, the latter reaching nearly as far as the apex of the terminal joint ; 

 ventral abdominal segments 1-3 with an almost smooth glabrous space 

 down the middle; dorsal segment 6 with some. rather coarse scattered 

 punctures. The almost smooth, shining, quadrinodose, obliquely latero- 

 excavate, basally subcarinate prothorax, and the four rather deep excava- 

 tions on each elj'tron, are conspicuous characters. The seventh abdominal 

 segment, from a plate at tlie sides of which the long anal brushes * arise, 

 is withdrawn into the sixth in the type, the " last ventral " of Cameron's 

 description being the penultimate. D. versicolor is extremely like the 

 insect identified by nie as I). annandaJei Bernh., and the differences are 

 noted in the remarks on that species. 



2. — Dianous annandaJei. 



Diano7is onnandalei Bernh. Ent. Blatt. vii, p. 57 (1913). 



Obscure greenish-aeneous, the antennae and palpi black ; alutaceous, tlie 

 prothorax much smoother aud sliiuing ; thickly clothed (the prothorax ex- 

 cepted) with very line udpressed pubescence, which is cinereous on the legs 

 aud under surface, mid variegate on the elytra, showing a tendency to form 

 three cinereous spots across ilie middle of the disc. Head broad, very densely, 

 miiuitely punctate, the intrn-oculnr depressions shallow, foveiform, and some- 

 Avhat widely separated; eyes moderately large; antennae long, Prothorax 

 about as long as broad, rather narrow, arcuately dilated at the sides anteriorly, 

 and constricted before the base, the hind angles somewhat prominent; carinate, 

 riigosely punctate, and depiessed at the base ; very deeply, obliquely, angulato- 

 excavate on each side a little behind the middle — the excavation limited 

 anteriorly and posteriorly by a smooth, conspicuous, tuberculiform prominence, 

 — and also deeply, obliquely grooved laterally before the basal margin ; the 

 convex portion of the disc sparsely, minutely punctate. Elytra subqiuidrate, 

 wider than the head, nearly twice as long as the protliorax, and a little longer 

 tlian broad ; very densely, minutely punctate, shallowly, long-itudinally de- 

 pressed near the suture anteriorh' and witliiu the somewhat swollen humeri, 

 tlio rest of the surface also uneven, two or three shallow depressions being 

 vi-<ible in certain lights. Abdomen densely, minutely punctate, the last two 

 segments with rathor co'u-se scattered punctures ; ventral segments 1-4 with a 

 broad space down the middle, and the basal half of G, smooth and glabrous, 

 5 and 6 with some yellowish hairs at the apex ; anal brushes long. Fourth 

 tarsal joint not lobed, but with a pencil of long hairs at the tip. 



* Some autliors use the term "anal style " for these appendages, -vrhich in Dianous are formed 

 by a V'enoil of long matted haii"8. 



