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which are tinged with black. The shape is moderately elongate 

 and very convex and the sides of the body are clothed beneath 

 with minute tawny setae. 



Var. cantori, Hope. The entire upper surface is black, except a 

 broad reddish yellow band at the outer margins of the elytra. 



Var. niger, nov. The whole upper surface is black, 

 c? . The head bears a moderately long horn, which is strongly 

 flattened laterally and sharply recurved. It is quite simple, rather 

 sharp at the tip and slightly rugose at its basal part. The pronotum 

 is extremely smooth and shining, with a few minute scattered 

 punctures, which are most evident near the posterior angles. It 

 is about as loug as it is wide, with the sides approximately parallel 

 from the posterior angles to the middle and strongly tapering from 

 that point, the anterior angles being acutely produced. A little 

 behind each anterior angle arises a short horizontal horn directed 

 forward, with a slight outward curve, and rather sharply pointed. 

 The posterior dorsal region of the thorax is humped and gives rise 

 to a pair of siuiilar but rather longer and nearly vertical horns 

 curving forward at the tips. The scuteUmn is rugosely punctured 

 and the elytra are smooth and shining, with very minute scattered 

 punctures which are most apparent near the suture, where there 

 is a line of larger impressed punctures on each side. The pygidium 

 is semi-opaque, with a very few minute punctures and a finely 

 rugose area in each lateral angle, and the apical part is inturned. 

 The front tibia is rather slender, the three teeth are long and 

 sharp, and the lower surface has a series of tubercles along the 

 middle. All the tarsi are long and the claw-joint is very long. 



In males of poor development the cephalic and posterior 

 thoracic horns become reduced, and in those of very small size 

 (var. cMldreni) the latter completely disappear. The lateral 

 processes of the thorax are fairly constant in size. 



5 . The whole surface is more rugose and opaque, the head and 

 pronotum are coarsely rugose and the elytra thinly clothed with 

 tawny setae, the sutural edges being a little elevated and more 

 shining. The pygidium and the greater part of the loiuer surface 

 are similarly clothed. The cephalic and thoracic armature is 

 entirely absent. The legs are shorter and the tarsi considerably 

 so. The colour of the elytra is more reddish in the typical 

 phase. 



Length 42-58 mm. ; breadth 22-33 mm. 



SiKKiM : Karsiang. 



Type in the British Museum ; also those of childreni and niger ; 

 type of atlcinsoni in coll. Nonfried ; that of cantori in the Oxford 

 Museum. 



Herr Nonfried gives Kashmir as the locality of his supposed 

 new species. A request for further particulars has met with no 

 response and as the description contains nothing inapplicable to 

 the present species it is best disregarded. 



