322 



Mas? capitis fronte, abdominispoe seg mentis tribus apicalibus 

 saturate rufis. 



Hab. India, Belgaum. 



Very like G. ^ncipennis^ but smaller, and the antennae in 

 neither sex even serrate. In the one example (which is with very 

 little doubt the maie) four joints at the base of the antennae 

 are more or less testaceous. The head has a broad impression in 

 front, and (in the maie) is deep orange-red in front, and with 

 deep sparse punctures. 



With regard to the référence of thèse insects to the genus Gar- 

 pliUTUs Er., it is to be observed that the distinction between that 

 genus and LempJius Er. is not very clear. But the latter is South 

 American, and some remarks upon the genus and upon Helcogaster 

 will be found in the Biologia C. Amer., Vol. III, Pt. 2, p. 32J- 

 323. Helcogaster has the tarsi distinctly five jointed. 



I hâve compared the species now described with the insect there 

 described as Helcogaster? atratxdus, to which they are very simi- 

 lar, and 1 find there is generic différence in the tarsi. The insect 

 described by D"" Sharp from Oahu (Hawaii) [Trans. Roy. Dublin 

 Soc, 1885, p. 157, t. IV, f. 20], appears from the figure to hâve 

 five-jointed tarsi, but this point is not alluded to in the description, 

 and is very uncertain, The pectination of the antennae is much 

 more pronounced in some Australian species, whereas at présent 

 1 hâve seen no species of Carplmrus with the antennae more than 

 serrate. Thèse insects require the feet setting out with great care 

 very cleanly on card, or mounting in balsam for microscopic exami- 

 natiou, before it possible to give an opinion of any value on 

 the point. 



93. Danacœa sp. — ? 



India, Dalhousie (C. Somers-Smith). 



The species ofi?«'>i«c^«hitherto described are al! either Europaean 

 or from the circum-Meditterranean or Asiaticcouutries, l fail to see 

 in what important respect the genus differs from Amauronia 

 Westw.; and it is itself considered as a mère section of Dasytes 

 in the Gênera Coleopterorum of Lacordaire by Chapuis. However 

 this may be it is certainly not on imaginary characters drawn 

 from the apical joints of the palpi, or the length of the labruîln, 

 (which certainly do not differ appreciably), that the gênera can be 

 established. Of the différent sections of Dasytes some differ in 

 gênerai form, and in the nature of the pubescence ; but it is better 

 to say so, than prétend to find différences where none but the most 

 trivial exist. The little species found at Dalhousie is the first of 

 this section recorded out of the Palœarctic région and so has an 



