the base, the rest of their surface covered with a very short dark 

 pubescence, more or less opaque. Body beneath very sparsely 

 clothed with tawny pubescence. Femora fusiform, laterally 

 compressed. 



Length 9-14 ; breadth 2|-3| mm. 



Hab. West Kashmir (Lt.-Col, Steatham) N.W. Himalayas 

 (E. P. Stebbing). 



Genus CRIOCEPHALUS. 



Criocephalus, Mulsant, Col. de. France, Lonyic. p. 63 (1839) ; Lacord. 



Gen. Coleopt. viii, p. 210 (1869) ; Sharp, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1905 



p. 145. 



Megasemum, Kraatz, Berl. ent. Zeit. xxiii, p. 97 (1879). 

 Cephalocrius, Sharp, torn. eit. p. 147. 

 Cephalallus, Sharp, torn. cit. p. 147. 



Type, C. rusticiis, Linn., a Palaearctic species. 



Range. Holarctic Eegion ; with one species in Upper Burma. 



Head with the front sloped, depressed along the middle and 

 marked with a median impressed line extending to the vertex ; 

 the clypeus flattened, limited behind by two distinct lines con- 

 verging so as to form an angle at the middle ; anteclypeus short ; 

 labrum transverse ; gula without mentigerous process, mandibles 

 rather short, each armed with a single tooth near the middle of 

 the inner edge; eyes rather large and coarsely facetted, emargi- 

 nate in front, the lower lobe extended more or less on to the 

 ventral surface of the head. Antennae longer or shorter than the 

 body in the c? , much shorter than the body in the $ ; first joint 

 not extended past the hind margin of the eye ; second half as long 

 at least as the first, third much longer than the first and distinctly 

 longer than the fourth. Prothorax slightly transverse, some- 

 times, especially in the c? , a little longer than broad, rounded or 

 obtusely subangulate at the sides. Elytra long, feebly convex, 

 slightly narrowed posteriorly, rounded at the apex. Legs 

 moderately long ; femora sublinear ; tibial spurs short, the front 

 tibiae with one and the middle and hind tibiae each with two at 

 the apex; tarsi rather long and narrow, the hind pair with the 

 first joint at least as long as the second and third united. Front 

 coxse strongly angulated outwards, their acetabula open poste- 

 riorly, the intercoxal process very narrow, not dilated posteriorly. 

 Episterna of metathorax moderately broad in front, gradually 

 narrowed to a point posteriorly. Venation of wings resembles 

 that of the genus Leptura i. e. the first cubital vein is bifurcated 

 posteriorly and anteriorly is joined by a transverse vein with the 

 second cubital. 



89. Criocephalus exoticus, Sharp, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1905, p. 159. 



J . Pitchy black, with a faint covering of short brownish pubes- 

 cence. Clypeus with a posterior triangular area a little more 



