302 



DyNASTIN.E. 



Length 17 mm. ; breadth 10 tnm. 



Kashmir: Gurais Valley, 7000 ft., Sonamarg ; Punjab: Kulu. 



Tyjye in the British Museum. 



A female specimen, originally in the Eothschild collection and 

 generously presented by Herr Chr. Sternberg to the British 

 Museum, appears to be the type of the species. 



276. Alissonotum crassnm. 



Alissonotum crassum, Arrow,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1908, p. 323. 



This is a large, black, oval insect. The head is coarsely rugose 



and bituberculate above. The jrrothorax is closely punctured, the 

 punctures being coarse except along the 

 middle, where they are fewer and finer. 

 There is a faint impression near the 

 middle of the anterior margin and a 

 minute elevation in front of it. The 

 lateral margins are well rounded, hut the 

 hind angles are not entirel_y obliterated. 

 The sciiteUum is broad and smooth. The 

 elytra are deeply striated, the sutural 

 stria being scarcely punctured and the 

 remainder rather strongly so ; the sub- 

 sutural interval is very broad and irregu- 

 larly punctured, and the third and fifth 

 have each an incomplete line of punctures ; 

 the outer margins are finely, and the 

 extremities coarsely, punctured. The 

 2yropy[iidium is produced in the middle 

 and bears two long and finely striated 



files ; the remainder of the surface is finely rugose and pubescent. 



The ])ygidiurn is finely punctured in the middle and rugosely at 



the sides. 



The sexes are alike. 



Length 19-21 mm. ; breadth 11 mm. 



Bengal : Eajmahal ; Assam : Silhet ; Burma : Bhamo ; 



Tenasserim. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Fig. 70. — Alissonotum 

 crassum. 



Genus PENTODON. 



Peutodon, JEfojoe, ColeopterisV s Manual, 1837, i, p. 92; Biirm., Handb. 

 Ent. V, 1847, p. 102; Lacord., Gen. CoUopt. lii, 1856, p. 410. 



Type, Geotnipes jmnrtatus, Yillers (S. Europe). 



Range. Southern Europe, AVestern and Central Asia, Eastern 

 Africa. 



Body broadly oval and very convex. Clypeus rather elliptical, 

 narrowing to the front, the head armed in the middle with one or 



