1919.] 99 



anteriorly, and within the humeri, with coarse, dense vorticose sculpture, the 

 punctures more conspicuous on the liumeral callosities. Abdomen densely, 

 minutely punctate ; ventral segments uniformly punctured ; anal brushes 

 slender. Legs not very slender; fourth tarsal joint small, simph^ excavate 

 at the apex above, furnished with a narrow pencil of hairs at the tip which 

 reaches to about the middle of tbe fifth joint. 



Length 7-g mm. 



ITab. India, W. Almora (H. G. O. : vi.l918). 



One specimen. Larger, more robust, and more rugose than 

 D. (Usti(jma, the only other spotted Himalayan species of the genus 

 known to me ; the head larger, and broadly excavate between the eyes, 

 the space between the frontal sulci less convex ; the anal brushes very 

 narroAv ; the small fourth tarsal joint without lobes, and simply penicil- 

 late at the tip, as in D. annandalei Bernh. 



The Occueeence of Dianous in Almora, Kumaon, U.P., India. 



The sandy and pebbly banks of the lower sti-etches of the streams 

 in the valleys of the Almora District at once attract the attention of the 

 Coleopterist as likely collecting-ground ; they appear to be the only likely 

 spots in the vicinity, since cultivation occupies every acre of reasonably 

 level ground, and, as terraces extend a long way up the slopes, to be 

 succeeded in turn by a belt on which all tree-growth has been destroyed. 

 The streams themselves run swiftly over their stony beds, are quite free 

 from any kind of weedy growth, and are of such size that, though easily 

 fordable in their wider parts during most of the year, they are frequently 

 impassable during the rains ; muddy banks are quite exceptional, but 

 small sandbanks and places with stones resting on clean sand are found 

 here and there along them. Further, it may be noted that the district 

 has three separate drainage systems, all emerging separately into the 

 plains, although the heads of one of tbem (the Kosi), and of important 

 branches of the other two, meet in the conspicuous peak of Bhatkot, 

 9086 feet above sea-level. 



Collecting along these lower streams actually proves well worth 

 while, and at almost an}' season of the year a considerable number of 

 species can be found, whose general facies is very like that of what is 

 met with in similar places in Britain. In fact, most of the genera are 

 at once recognisable, such as Bemhidiiim, Tachj/s, Ferileptus, Bra- 

 chinus, Nehria, Drypta, Paederus, Bledius, Heterocerus, Cryptohypnus, 

 Anthicus, Ochthebius, Laccobius, and so on. In the rains, as might 

 be expected, there is much less to be found, except that Cicindelids, 

 especially Cicindela chloris and its varieties, occujjy the higher sand- 

 banks in force. K 2 



