GEOTRA.GUS. 199 



median elevation. Genitalia with the terminal process longer and 

 much more strongly retiexed at the tip. 



U.ujth, S «-!<', § «|-1:^ mm.; breadth, 6 ^|-3|, 2 3|- 

 4| mm. 



Bengal : Tetara and Bar\\a, Chota Nagpur [Father C'ardon — 

 type). SiKKiM : Ivurseong, 6100 it. {E. A. D'Ahreu). Bhutan 

 [Gapt. Femberton). Assam: Duinpep, 4500 ft,, and The Peak, 

 6400 ft., Shillong (S. W. Kemp—lud. Mas.). 



'Fi/l>e in the Brussels Museum. 



In the typical form from the plains the apices of the elytra in 

 the (5 are obtuse, as in G. liimalayccnus, whereas in the specimens 

 from the hills they are more produced and acute, this being most 

 marked in those from Bhutan. 



168. Geotragus subfasciatus, Deshr. 



Brachyaqiistes subfasciatus, Desbrochers des Leges,* Journ. As. 



kSoc. llenga], 1890, p. 211. 

 TaplirofhyHchus assamensis^ Faust, vStett. Ent. Zeit. 1891, p. 260, &l 



1893, p. 149. 



Colour black, with earthy-brown scaling, the prothorax with a 

 lanceolate darker dorsal stripe, the elytra with an ill defined 

 darker [jatch beyond the middle. 



Head, closely striolate, the forehead sometimes with a fine 

 median stria ascending the vertex. Fosfnan longer than broad, 

 dilated at the apex, with a large deep median fovea above, the 

 basal portion stx'ioiate and with a narrow central furrow, the 

 apical part with two deep convergent sulci, the ante-ocular area 

 with a longitudinal impression. Antennce dark brown, the funicle 

 with joint 1 equal to, but thicker than, 2. Frofhora.v as long as 

 broad, its sides regularly rounded, broadest about the middle, the 

 apex but little narrower than the base, closely and evenly covered 

 with small granules and with a couiplete shallow central fiu'row. 

 Elytra ovate, of the same shape as in G. himalayanus but more 

 abruptly constricted at the base, the intervals smooth, slightly 

 convex, the alternate ones not more raised and without tubercles, 

 the suture slightly elevated on the declivity, the setfe short and 

 subdepressed. Legs stouter than in G. himalayanus. 



Length, 6 8i-9|, $ 8.4-11 mm.; breadth, 6 3.^-4, 5 3|- 

 5 mm. 



Bhutan: Pedong, Maria Basti. Sikkim : Ghumti, 4000 ft., 

 Darjiling dist. {F. H. Gravely — Ind. Mus.) ; Mungphu {E. T. 

 Atkinson). Bengal : Tetara, Chota Xagpur (Oardon). 



Type in the Indian Museum; of assamensis at Dresden. 



169. Geotragus fissicoUis, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with brownish-grey scaling, the elytra with a 

 broad transverse dark brown band behind the middle. 



