NOTOTKAC1LYS. 399 



black male at Poona ; and Dudgeon a flavous and black J , with 

 testaceous $ $ , in the Kangra Valley. 



This is known to be a widely distributed species throughout 

 Europe, from Sweden to northern Africa, though rarer further 

 north and very doubtfully British, since the only record of which 

 L am aware is by Ingpen in 1839 (in his " Instructions," p. 62). 

 Dr. Giraud tells us tbat Ferris once bred this species from the 

 heteromerous beetle, Hymenonis doublieri, Muls. 



[I here transcribe the descriptions of two species, thought by 

 their author to be new, "which appear to be nothing but represen- 

 tatives of the innumerable colour varieties of the above protean 

 species : 



Nototrachus rufo-orbitalis, Cameron, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1906, p. 276($). 



"Black; the eye orbits narrowly below, more broadly above, 

 dark rufous ; behind extending on to the ocelli ; and on it, 

 opposite the ocelli, is a yellowish mark. The fore legs are 

 fuscous tinged with yellow ; the four hinder black, their knees 

 yellow ; the hind tibia? are fuscous on the inner side. Wings 

 hyaline, the stigma and nervures blackish. 



" Face and clypeus shining, sparsely punctured ; the front 

 keeled down the middle, stoutly, irregularly obliquely striated ; 

 the sides sparsely punctured ; the vertex is smooth and shining. 

 Pronotum irregularly, transversely striated. Mesonotum stoutly, 

 irregularly reticulated ; the middle lobe is broadly bordered by 

 dark rufous. Scutellum transversely striated, almost reticulated ; 

 the apical half is dark rufous ; the sides are stoutly keeled, the 

 keels meeting in the middle. Metanotum stoutly reticulated ; 

 there is a smooth area, longer than wide, in the centre of the 

 base. Pro- and meso-pleurae, except the upper half of the latter 

 at the apex, closely, stoutly, longitudinally striated, the striae 

 running into each other ; the metapleurae stoutly longitudinally 

 striated-reticulated. The upper part of the propleura is broadly 

 rufous. Abdomen smooth, bare, and shining. Length 7 millim ; 

 terebra 2 millim." 



BALUCHISTAN : Quetta, v. 02 (Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



The type is a very small insect, differing from N. folialor only 

 in having the upper basal nervure slightly less curved immediately 

 above the median, and the median of the hind wing not at all 

 curved above the nervellus. Probably it is no more than a small 

 local race. 



Nototrachus flavo-orbitalis, Cameron, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. 1907, p. 591 ( $ ). 



" Head and thorax rufous, the face, except in the centre above, 

 the orbits broadly all round, a line on the sides of mesonotum, 

 dilated roundly, inwardly at the base, scutellum, except the basal 

 slope and more narrowly at the apex, a line on the lower part of 



