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présent insect has been known to me by spécimens from the Cal- 

 cutta Muséum, and is according to the exponents of that species in 

 the British Muséum a différent insect from 0. signicollis. The 

 examples before me are ail females. An example of a Conderis in 

 my own collection from Malacca, differs from this insect in having 

 the antennae more deeply serrate, and (I think) by the more lan- 

 ceolate areolet in the centre of the thorax. 



In C. velutinus this areolet is diamond-shaped but with the 

 anterior sides only half as long as the posterior. 



33. Conderis sp. — ? 

 India, Kanara (Bell). 



A single spécimen of a Conderis from Kanara is notin sufïicienily 

 good state, for me to say more than that it is of a pale yellow 

 colour, linear, and about 9 mill. long. 



34. Calochromus vesticoUis n. sp. — Niger nitidus, pro- 

 thorace subquadrato medio prof tende canaliculato , pube purpureo 

 vestito, elytris riifis dense pttbescentibus , basi summo nigrescen- 

 tibus, antennis Jiaud serratis, dimidium corporiss abœqualibus y 

 scutello nigro. — Long. 9-10 millim. (^ 9- 



Hab. India, Chamba (C. Somers-Smith). 



This is a species of médium size readily distinguished among 

 the recorded species of the genus, by its transverse, black thorax 

 clothed with purplish red scales, or hairs and the antennae simple 

 in both sexes; there is in fact little différence observable in the 

 sexes. It appears to be allied to C. tarsalis Waterh. The thorax 

 is very deeply impressed, with raised incrassate margins, the 

 latéral plica is distinct in larger examples. 



The elytra are blood-red likethose oî Lycostomus piirpureivestis^ 

 to which it bears a superâcial resemblance ; their extrême bases 

 are blackish. 



35. Calochromus rwèer Waterh., Cist. Ent. II, 1877, p. 190*; 

 m. Typ. Col. in Brit. Mus., p. 4, t. I, f. 6. 



India, Madras (coll. Gorh.), Allahabad*. 



Chamba (C. Somers-Smith), Kanara (Bell). 



One of the commonest species of Calochromus from India. 



Subfam. Lampyrides. 



36. Lamprophorus nepalensis Gray, Zool. Mise. 1831, p. 26; 

 Gorh., Rev. of Lamp., Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 89; E. Oliv., 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., (2) II, p. 343 (1885). 



Kanara, 3 ex. 



