interest of its own. It is also verj similar to several Europaean 

 species e. g. to D. airipes Grâells. 



94. Dasytes mœstus n. sp. — Niger, tenuiter griseo-pilosus, 

 breviter oblongus, convewus; capiie siohtiliter, protfior ace obsolète 

 conjluenter, elytris prqftondms crebre punctatis, antennis brevibus 

 leviter serratis, lialparum maxillarmm articulo ultimo .fortiter 

 securiformi ; tibiis tarsisque picescentibus. — Long. 2.5 millirn. 



Hab. India, Belgaum (Andrewes, Nov. and Dec. sweeping grass). 



This little insect has very much the size and form of Cis micans, 

 and is also very suggestive of a species of Opetiopalpus. The hatchet 

 shaped joint of the maxillary palpi, removes it of course from most 

 of the palsearctic sections of this genus. Amauronia Westw. has 

 according to the définition, the same joint hatchet shaped, but this 

 does not apply to the species which hâve been referred to it 

 (excepting the type). Our insect is more clearly allied to such 

 subgeiiera as Cerallus. I prefer to say no more about it, till I hâve 

 seen other species from the East. 



95. Dasytes cambiensis n. sp. — Elo%gat%s^ nigro-snbcœnt- 

 leus, nilidus ; capite prothoraceque parcius pilosis, elytris Dix 

 pubescentibus, his crebre ac distincte^ illis parce pimctatis ; 

 antennis, capitis protJioracisque longitudine,i)ix serratis, articiclis 

 secundo et tertio r^ifescentibus , pedibus nigris tibiis tarsisque pices- 

 centibus. — Long. 4.5-6 millim. 



Hab. Indu, Chamba (G. Somers-Smith). 

 Of the eiongate, rather depressed, form of D. japonicus Kiesen. 

 with the head and thorax narrowerthat the elytra. Very shilling 

 and glabrous between the deep but rather sparse punctures of the 

 thorax, the disk of the latter with a deep impression in the middle 

 near the base. Elytra with a short sulcation between the callus 

 and the scutellar tumid région, very thickly deeply and con- 

 fluently punctured, there is no suturai stria, the apex has the 

 margin a little expanded. 



Five or six examples from Chamba (G. Somers-Smith). 



96. Dasytes (Amauronia?) discretus n. sp. — Elonqatxis 

 depressus, nigro-xneus, nigro-pilosus, tenuiter piobescens ; capite 

 prothoraceque creberrime subtilius, elytris crebre fortiios punc- 

 tatis^ antennarum basi tibiis tarsisg^ue Havescentibus . — ■ Long. 

 2.5-8 millim. 



Hab. Indu, Ghamba (G. Somers-Smith). 



Very like a Danacœa in form, the palpi are truncate at the 

 apex, and not pointed or awl-shaped but somewhat oblong, and 

 dark. The aiitennse hâve t wo or three joints at the base da»'k rufous, 



