BLOSYRODES. 41 



carina (sometimes obsolete) and two shallow lateral impressions 

 on each side. Elytra subglobose, broadest about the middle, the 

 shoulders rounded, subdepressed in the middle of the disk, with 

 shallow distinctly punctured strife, the intervals narrow and sub ■ 

 costate, the alternate ones often slightly more raised, interval 5 

 with two tubei'cles posteriorly, the anterior one often faint, and 

 a similar faint tubercle near it on interval 7, the seta3 stiff and 

 erect. Legs piceous, the tarsi reddish. 



Length, 3^-4| mm.; breadtl), 2^-3| mm. 



Kashmie {yon Hilcjel). United Photinces : Mussoorie, 

 7000 ft. (Le/ro^/— Pusa'ColL). 



Type in the N-^ienna Museum ; also type of B. coiilatus; that of 

 B. interriqytus in the collection of Sign. Angelo Solari. 



10. Blosyrodes pubescens, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with thin recumbent pale pubescence and without 

 scaling. 



Head rather convex, finely and sliallowly punctate, with a narrow 

 central stria and no lateral im[)ression8, separated from the rostrum 

 by a strong angulated furrow, which is deep in tlie middle and 

 much finer laterally. Rostrum slightly dilated towards the apex, 

 its sides straight, quite plane above, finely aciculate and with only 

 a faint central carina in the apical half. Frothorax transverse, 

 the sides rounded, broadest before the middle, the upper surface 

 with fine rugose punctation and with a low smooth central carina. 

 Eliytra broadly ovate, widest before the middle, regularly punctato- 

 striate, the intervals broader than the striae, smooth and slightly 

 convex, interval ^> with a prominent rounded tubercle at its apex; 

 the setie short and suberect, more noticeable in the posterior half. 



Length, 4| mm. ; breadth, 2|- mm. 



Baluchistan : Kaha Pass (type). Kashmir : Jerjii, 11 ,200 ft., 

 towards Gilgit {Col. G. M. Giles — Ind. Mus.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



11. Blosyrodes verrucosus, sp. nov. 



Colour blaclv or piceous brown, rather thitily covered ^\■ith brown 

 scaling having a coppery reflexion. 



Head almost plane between the eyes and with three narrow 

 sulci, with fine confluent punctation w hich is hidden by the scaling. 

 nostrum gradually narrowed from base to apex, with a shallow 

 central impression containing a narrow bare carina, and with a 

 faint longitudinal depression on each side near the margin. Fro- 

 i^orrta* broader than long, base and apex of about equal width, sides 

 strongly rounded, broadest before middle ; upper surface convex, 

 uneven, w-ith low rounded granules and a faint transverse impres- 

 sion towards the apex, the central carina very short, narrow and 

 shiny (absent in one example). Elytra globose, the basal margin 

 subtruncate, the sides strongly I'ounded, broadest at the middle; 



