6 SECOND YAKKAND MISSION. 



congeners. The three basal dilated joints of the anterior tarsi are not triangular, but 

 ovate, their angles being perfectly rounded. Underneath, the dilated male joints are clothed 

 with long ragged scale-hairs, loosely arranged ; but this is the case with the European species 

 of the genus ; and the statement of Schaum and others is therefore erroneous, that they are 

 " spongiosi " and bring the genus within the Anisodactylina sub-family. The genus is, in 

 fact, allied to Ophonus. The upper surface of D. alticolus is light tawny or reddish-brown, 

 redder on the thorax and a large spot on each side of the head. The rest of the head is 

 brassy-black. The disk of the thorax has a dusky spot, sometimes indistinct. The disk of 

 the elytra has, posteriorly, covering interstices 3 and 4, an elongate black spot. The 

 species is closely allied to the South Russian and Turkestan D. dtscicollis, Dej., differing 

 chiefly in the obliteration of the hinder angles of the thorax. 

 Hab. Pamir, between Sirikol and Panga. 



21. HABPALUS C.ERTTLEATTJS. 



Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 714. 



Elongato-oblongus, glaber, thorace transversim quadrato, postice distincte angustato, 

 lateribus arcuatis, angulis posticia rotundatis, basi utrinque late subcrebre punctato, margine 

 basali bisinuato : elytris apice fortiter sinuatis, supra striatis, interstitiis planis impunctatis, 

 ertio unirpunctato. 



$ . Supra capite thoraceque nigris politis, elytris caeruleis, subviolaceis, nitidis ; antennis 

 nigris, articulo basali rufo : corpore subtus nigro, pectore medio pedibusque rufopiceis ; abdo- 

 mine medio nitido. Immature toto corpore castaneo-rufo, nitido, elytris violaceis. 



% . Nigro-vel rufo-castanea, raro obscuro-nigra ; elytris opacis interdum violaceo-tinctis, 

 apice fortius (ut in H. aeneo ? ) sinuatis. 



An elongate species, similar in form to H. hospes (Sturm), but without its punctuation. 

 Thorax slightly narrowed behind, with hinder angles, but blunted or rather rounded at their 

 apices. The elytra are destitute of punctuation, except the usual marginal row, and their 

 apices are rather deeply sinuate in both sexes, but most so in the ? . The sexual diversity 

 in colour is constant in mature individuals, the male having the head and thorax glossy 

 black, with violet blue elytra ; the female being chestnut-red or brown, with elytra sometimes 

 tinged with violet. Terminal spur of the anterior tibiae lanceolate, simple. 



Hab. Yangihissar and Kogyar. 



22. HARPALUS MELANEUS. 



Bates, Proc.|Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 714. 



H. calceato (J)ufts.) forma coloreque similis, at thorace fere impunctato angulisque posti- 

 cis obtusis. Oblongus, modice elongatus, niger nitidus, elytris $ opacis ; antennis et palpis 

 nigris, articulis omnibus apice piceo-rujis : thorace transversim quadrato, postice leviter 

 angustato, angulis posticis obtusis lateribus antice modice arcuatis, basi utrinque vage via; 

 punctato, fovea lineari impresso : elytris apice paullulum sinuatis, supra convexis, simpliciter 

 striatis, interstitiis modice convexis, tertio unipunctato. 



Long. 6 lin. 



