10 Mr. H. W. Bates on Coteoptera 



Pheropsophus catoirei, Dejean. 

 A widely distributed Indian species. 



Harpalus melaneus, Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 714. 



This species appears to be widely distributed in the Himalaya 

 and N.W. India. I have seen examples, with little variation, from 

 Sind Valley, Goorais, Kulu, and Ladak. 



Harpalus indicola, Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 714. 



Harpalus praticola, Chaud. MS. 



Similar in its distribution to H. melaneus. The examples 

 from Kulu are all rather smaller than those described from 

 Murree, being only 8^ millim., those originally described being 

 10|- millim. Specimens from "North India" returned to me 

 named, in Chaudoir's handwriting, H. praticola ined., which 

 would have been described in a Monograph of the Harpalinse, on 

 which that eminent carabologist was engaged at the time of his 

 death, do not differ from H. indicola, except in their rather 

 stronger aeneous tinge. 



Harpalus amarellus, n. sp. 

 Allied to H. tardus (Panz.), and similar in form, though more ovate, 

 much smaller and flatter. Pitchy-black, with aeneous tinge ; the four anterior 

 tarsi, antennae, and palpi rufous. Thorax transverse-quadrate, the narrowing 

 in front beginning close to the anterior angles; sides from before the middle 

 to the base nearly straight, with hind angles rectangular, though blunted at 

 the apex ; the fine lateral margins are sometimes riifous, the surface smooth 

 and remarkably plane towards the hind angles, the basal foveae very shallow 

 and sometimes obsolete. The elytra are moderately shining and sericeous 

 in both sexes ; the striae simple, acute, the interstices flat to the apex ; the 

 3rd with a puncture distant from the 2nd stria, and placed midway between 

 the middle and the apex. The preapical sinuation is well marked, especially 

 in the female, but the apex is only moderately produced and acutely rounded 

 even in the male. The tooth of the mentum is extremely short ; the pro- 

 sternum is plurisetose at the apex. Long. 1\ — 8 millim. 



Family COPEID^. 

 CoPRis POMPiLius, Waterhouse, Tr. E. S. 1875, p. 74. 

 The punctuation of the elytral interstices mentioned by 

 Waterhouse is present in both sexes. 



Catharsius granulatus. Sharp, Har. Col. Hefte, xiii. p. 41. 

 One male example, agreeing with the above-cited description. 



OnITIS PHILEMON, FuJ). 



Onthophagus pactolus, Fah. 

 Onthophagus angulatus, Redtenbacher. 

 Onthophagus dama, Fah. 

 Onthophagus tarandus, Fab. 



