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joint of anterior and middle tarsi. The head appears ovate and small, owing to the unsalient 

 eyes and the continued width and fulness far behind the eyes, the short neck close to the 

 thorax only being contracted ; the upper surface also at the neck is depressed. The palpi 

 are not notably elongated, and the apical joints are but slightly narrowed to the apex and 

 briefly trtmcated. The third antennal joint is naked and of the same length as the fourth. 

 The thorax is widest a little before the middle and the sides are there slightly angulated ; 

 the anterior angles are prominent, the posterior very obtuse, almost rounded. The tarsi are 

 clothed beneath with long soft hairs, longest on the fourth joint as characteristic of the 

 genus Colpodes. 

 Hab. Murree. 



41. ARGTJTOR DIFPICILIS ? 



Chaudoir, Enum. Carab. Caucas, p. 136. 



Hab, A single example of an Argutor, from Sanju, closely allied to the common 

 European A. strenuus (Panzer). From its somewhat larger size, I think it likely to be the 

 species, or variety, above-named. 



42. MOLOPS PILIFEBTJS. 

 Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 718. 



Niger, nitidus ; tliorace late cor dato, post medium subsinuatim angustato, angulis posticis 

 rectis; autice juxta marginem lateralem punctis decem longe piliferis lineatim dispositis : 

 elytris elongato-ovatis, convexis, prope apicem fortiter sinuatis, supra exarato-striatis, 

 striis 7 8 valde approximatis, 7ma uninterrupte punctatis, punctis longe piliferis, interstitiis 

 dorsalibus plants, tertio et quinto apice pilifero-punctatis. 



Long. 6 7 lin. 



Distinguished from all its European congeners by the remarkable row of punctures along 

 the seventh elytral stria, each bearing an extremely long stiff hair : a similar row of hairs ac- 

 companies the lateral margin of the thorax, at the rounded anterior part, and a group of the 

 same is situated near the inner margin of each eye. The general shape of the insect is 

 similar to that of M. elatus ; but the thorax is more fully rounded anteriorly and more 

 narrowed posteriorly, the hind angles being rectangular and not abruptly prominent. The 

 striae of the elytra are more sharply impressed, not distinctly punctured, and the interstices 

 are plane. 



Hab. Murree. 



43. AMARA TRIVIALIS. 



Gyllenhal, Fauna Suec. vi, 240. 



Hab. Two examples : Sind Valley ; agreeing tolerably well with West European speci- 

 mens. 



