326 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 
at length by Dr. Gahan. The artist, however, has drawn a 
male path three stout basal joints to ie antenne, the short 
first joint being imaginary (see Pl. VIII. fig. 3). 
4, Laius bulbifer, sp. n. 
2. Moderately elongate, widened dee finely pu- 
bescent, shining; black, the antennal joints 1-3, the prothorax, 
the anterior legs (the femora in great part excepted), and 
the extreme bases of the intermediate and posterior tibia, 
testaceous or rufo-testaceous, the elytra cyaneous ; the head 
and prothorax very sparsely (the sides of the latter closely), 
minutely, and the elytra densely, rather strongly, punctured, 
the elytra a little smoother at the tip. Head barely as wide 
as the prothorax; eyes rather small, prominent ; antennze 
with joints 1 and 2 moderately thickened, 1 curved, ‘much 
longer than 2, 2 more than twice the length of 3, 3-9 a 
little longer than broad. Prothorax transverse, pL 
rounded at the sides, sinuously narrowed towards ‘the base, 
the transverse basal groove deep. Elytra moderately long, 
much widened posteriorly, rounded at the apex, depressed 
near the suture anteriorly. 
6. Antennal joint 1 testaceous on the inner and outer 
aspects, curved, broadly lamellate (as seen in profile); 2 
black, extremely large and stout, broadly oval, excavate 
above, and bearing two long, slender, contiguous appendages 
near the base within (Pl. VIII. fig. 4). 
Length 31 mm. (2 2.) 
Hab. Invta, Chaubattia, Almora District, alt. 6—-7000 ft. 
(S. R. Archer: g), W. Almora in Kumaon (H.G.C.: 92). 
A male received by the British Museum in 1920, a female 
captured by my eldest son, probably in 1919, the two 
localities being not very far distant in the Himalaya. 
5. Laius denticornis, sp. n. 
3. Moderately elongate, somewhat convex, widened 
posteriorly, shining, finely cinereo-pubescent ; black, the 
antennal joints 1 and 2, and the head and prothorax (an 
infuscate patch on the disc of the latter excepted), testaceous, 
the elytra obscure bluish-green ; the head and prothorax 
minutely (the sides of the latter rugulosely), and the elytra 
(except at the base, which is, smoother) densely and some- 
what coarsely, punctured. Head about as broad as the 
prothorax, grooved in the middle between the eyes, the 
latter prominent; antennal joint 1 stout, curved, subdentate 
at the outer apical angle, 2 extremely large, oblong, 
