DASTVALGUS. 239 



Type in the Genoa Museum ; cotypes in the British Museum. 

 Ten typical specimens which Dr. Gestro has kindly sent me 

 for examination appear to be all males. They were found in 



flowers. 



221. Dasyvalgus carbonarius, sp. n. 



Black and shining, but finely rugose and excessively finely and 

 sparingly clothed with dark setfe, with four small inconspicuous 

 patches of erect seta? placed in a transverse line across the middle 

 of the elytra, each patch immediately followed by a few greyish 

 scales. The scales and set?e are easily lost. 



The body is moderately broad and the legs are slender. The 

 head is very closely punctured and the forehead sliglitly carinate. 

 The proihorax is strongly and densely pitted and rugose, narrow, 

 with the front angles acute, the sides gently rounded and a little 

 contracted behind, and the hind angles slightly rounded off. 

 There are two sharp, nearly parallel, dorsal carinse extending from 

 the front almost to the base, two short outer ridges near the 

 middle, parallel to the first (but sometimes absent), and a short 

 oblique ridge in each hind angle. The scuteUiim is a little elon- 

 gate, and the eli/tra are irregularly striated, with a slight tuft of 

 black setae at each shoulder, and the hind margins are separately 

 rounded. The terminal spiracles are very sharp and prominent, 

 and there are two small distant tufts at the hind margin of the 

 pi-opygidiitm, which, with the pijgidium and lower surface of the 

 body, is closely covered with large annular punctures. The front 

 tibia is armed with five equidistant teeth, the 1st, 3rd, and 5th a 

 little longer than the others. The basal joint of the hind tarsus 

 is as long as the two succeeding. 



(S . The body is very short and compact and the tarsi are very 

 long and slender. 



5 . The body is elongate and the tarsi are rather short. The 

 front tibia is shorter and broader, the terminal spiracles are less 

 sharply produced, and the pygidium is very prominent, with the 

 annular impressions larger and less ci"owded, and with a flattened 

 and flanged ventral surface. 



Length 6-8 mm. ; breadth 3-5-4*5 mm. 



BuEMA : Euby Mines (Dohertg) ; Sikkim : Karsiang (Ver- 

 schraeghen). 



Type in the British Museum ; cotypes in colls. R. Oberthiir and 

 Baron P. de Moffarts. 



I have seen a good series of males but only a single female, 

 which, in spite of its different aspect, due chiefly to the prominent 

 pygidium and very much shorter tarsi, I beheve I am right in 

 associating with them. It was brought by Doherty from the Ruby 

 Mines, together with several males. 



