DORCUS. 97 



the inetast(M'niiin tliinly clothed with yellow hair. Narrowly 

 elongate, parallel-sided and eonvex, with the legs short and 

 slight. The head densely rugose, with a pair of tubercles, 

 sometimes very inconspicuous, in the middle, the eyes almost 

 divided by the canthus. The epistome almost semicircular. 

 The jjronotum rugose at the sides and coarsely and confluently 

 punctured in the middle. The front angle blunt, the lateral 

 margin feebly curved to the lateral angle, which, like the hind 

 angle, is ill-(lefined, and the base almost straight. The elytra 

 bear numerous series of sliallow confluent punctures, separated 

 by narrow eostse, but confused at the sides and apices. The 

 shoulders are acute. The prosternum elevated but not com- 

 ])ressed nor ])ointed behind. The metasternnm shining and 

 strongly pimctured in the middle, where there is a deep median 

 groove, and densely rugose or granular at the sides. The 

 abdomen strongly and densely punctured beneath. The 

 antenna very short, with all the jomts, except the scape, 

 strongly transverse. 



$. The head bears a pair of minute rather inconspicuous 

 tubercles. The mandibles are rather narrow, acutely pointed 

 and furnished with a short sharp internal tooth directed 

 slightly downward. The front tibia is broad, palmate at the 

 end, with three short external teeth and an upper supple- 

 mentary tooth. The middle and hind tibise have each a 

 sharp lateral spine. 



^. The head bears a pair of small transverse elevations, 

 sometimes uniting to form a slight short ridge. The mandibles 

 are very short, scarcely longer than those of the female but 

 rather more slender, each armed with a small blunt tooth 

 directed obli(![uely upward. The front tibia is more slender 

 than that of the female and has a short broad terminal fork. 

 The middle tibia bears a sharp lateral spine and the hind 

 tibia a very minute one or none. 



Length, 13-1 9-5 mm. ; breadth, 5-7-5 mm. 



Kashmir : Aish Mugam, 5500 ft. {T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, 

 July) ; Ajan, Lolab Valley, 5500 ft. {B. M. Bhatia, May) ; 

 Munda, 7200 ft. {('. F. C. Beemn, May). 



Punjab : Kulu, Parbatti Valley, 6000-8000 ft. (H. G. 

 CJmmpion). United Province : Kumaon, W. Almora (//. G. 

 Champion, July, August) ; Kathian, Chakrata, 7000 ft. 

 {J. C. M. Gardner, June). 



Found in rotten wood and under bark. Mr. Bainbrigge 

 Fletcher took a j)air uj)on a Walnut tree. 



Type in the Rene Oberthiir collection ; that of rosti in 

 the Deutsche Ent. Inst., Berlin; that of bobi in Dr. Didier's 

 collection. 



The two sexes are almost alike and very careful examination 

 js needed to discover the slight differences in legs and mandibles. 



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