156 tJ"iy. 



4-6 small and transverse, and those following more transverse ; the eyes 

 smaller ; the pro thorax obliquely naiTowed from apex to base ; the 

 elytra less elongate. Another example from the same locality, possibly 

 a 2 of the same species, is narrower and much less robust, and has the 

 head less coarsely punctured, and the puncturing of the prothorax more 

 confused (possibly abnormally so), the grooves on the disc being shallow 

 and interrupted. P. indicus Fauv., according to the description, has the 

 sixth antennal joint more strongly transverse than the fifth, and the head 

 more rounded, and the prothorax very little shorter than in P. miles, a 

 definition not applying to P. bengalensis. 



3. — Planenstomus stib car hiatus, n. sp. 



Elonoate, very narrow, linear; niodtTatnlj sliiniTig, teslaceous, tlie eyes 

 and the sides of the abdomen at the apex black, sparsely pubescent. Head 

 (excluding the labruiu and mandibles) transverse, alut 'ceou*, rather coar>;ely 

 punctate; eyes convex, small, nearly i-eaching the basal constriction of the 

 head; antennae with j(Mnts 4-6 transverse, small, 7-11 much stouter and 

 wider than those preceding, 7 and 8 strongly, and 9 and 10 moderately, trans- 

 verse, 8 slightly shorter than 7, 9 and 10 broader than 7 and 8, 11 short oval, 

 Prothorax a little longer than broad, narrower than the head, trapezoidal, 

 obliquely narrowing from apex to ba'^e ; ahitaceous, with two narrowly sepa- 

 rated, shallow, uniseriate-piuictate grooves on the disc — the space between the 

 grooves appearing smoother and cariniform posteriorly, — and numerous fine 

 punctures along the sides. Elytra longer than broad ; closely, finely punctate- 

 striate to apex. Abdomen extremely finely shagreened and with minute 

 piligerous punctures. 



Length 1\ mm. 



Kah. India, Sarda in Bengal [P. TV. C). 



One example ; a second, somewhat discoloured and " run up," 

 specimen from Sunderbans, appears to belong to the same species. A 

 small, narrow form, nearly related to the European P. palpalis Er., 

 differing from it in the more convex eyes, the more thickened outer 

 joints of the antennae, and the shining head and prothorax. 



Horsell. 



Maij 12t7i, 1919. 



Melayiophila acmninata de G. at a fire in June. — On June 15th, during 

 four hours' diligent searching, I saw about two dozen specimens of MelanopJnla 

 acianinata de G., near Wellington College, at a big forest fire which had been 

 burning for more than a week. They flew about in the smoke and settled on 

 the burnt wood and hot ashes in the manner so well described by the late 

 Mr. W. E. Sharp (Ent. Mo. Mag. liv, p. 244, 1918). The time of year no 

 doubt accounts for their scarcity. Of the eight I managed to ca])ture, the 



