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from above), convex on the disc, and -with a deep, arcuate depression (formed 

 by two confluent foveae) before the base. Elytra much wider than the head, 

 moderately long, arcuately narrowing from about the middle, strongly depressed 

 below the base. Legs long, slender; anterior tarsi with joint 1 greatly 

 dilated, convex above, oval, about twice the width of the tibia, 3 conspicuously 

 lobed, broader than 2 ; posterior femora curved, gradually widened towards the 

 apex beneath, the dilated portion terminating in a short tooth; claw-joint of 

 each tarsus very slender. Length L' ' , breadth 1 mm. 



Hah. India, W. Almora in Kumaon {H. G. C). 



One male. Easily recognizable by the enormously developed basal 

 joint of the anterior tarsi and the curved, dilated, angulate posterior 

 femora. X. hidlifer is not very closely related to any of the numerous 

 Indian species recently described by myself . The Bornean X. latimamis 

 has somewhat similar anterior tarsi in 6 . 



(Jnopus jpinicola, n. sp. 



Oblong, shining, finely pubescent; fusco-testaceous, the head usually 

 darker and the prothorax somewhat rufescent, the antennae and legs testa- 

 ceous ; the head and prothorax closely, minutely, the elytra more distinctly, 

 punctate. Head strongly transverse, broader than the prothorax, not extended 

 at the sides behind the eyes, the latter convex, prominent; antennae slender, 

 long in J , much shorter in 5 , joint 2 short, rather stout, subglobose, 3-10 sub- 

 equal in length, 11 much longer, acuminate-ovate. Prothorax transversely 

 subquadrate, slightly narrowed anteriorly, with a deep transverse sulcus before 

 the ba&e, which nearly reaches the outer margin and is sometimes slightly 

 interrupted in the centre. Elytra much wider than the head, comparatively 

 short, narrowed Irom the middle, transversely depressed below the base. Legs 

 very slender, including tlie posterior pair, which are scarcely so long as the 

 .ntermediate pair ; basal joint of posterior tarsi shorter than the others united. 

 Length 1, VI i mm. (d?.) 



Hah. India, W. Almora in Kumaon (-H. O. C). 



Found in some numbers by beating Pimis longifolia. A minute, 

 very fragile insect, with the general facies of a small Melanophthahna 

 (fam. Latliridiidae). The feeble development of the posterior legs and 

 the shortened basal joint of the posterior tarsi bring this insect into the 

 genus Gnopus, the two known species of which are from Mexico and 

 the Southern United States respectively. Compared with the type of 

 the genus, C. Jlohri Champ., from Jalapa, the Indian C. pinicola is a 

 little more elongate, less shining, and more closely punctate, and has 

 larger eyes and more slender antennae. 



£ruchus caerideus, n. sp. 



Rather narrow, shining, blue or bluish-green, tbe antennae black, with tbe 

 ba^al joints to a variable extent in S , and usually at the base only in 5 ? 



