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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



stercorarim, Har. ; it will not, however, be possible to consider this conclusively established 

 until the male has been found and examined. 



19. GEOTRTJPES KASHMIRENSIS, n. sp. 



G. stercorario (Haroldi) persimilis, sed elytris longioribus; oblong o-ovalis, supra virides- 

 centi-niger, nitidus,subtuspurpureus,fulvo-pubescens; antennis piceo-rufis ; mandibulis extus 

 rotundatis, ad apicem leviter unisinuatis ; elytris striis 14, minus distincte punctatis ; abdomine 

 etiam in medio punctato, sed illo minus pubescente ; tibiarum posticarum carina tertia 

 (ab apice) omnino carente. 



Long. 24 mm., lat. 13 mm. 



This species is closely allied to G. stercorarius, Harold, but is rather more elongate, so as to 

 look at first sight like G. mutator, Er. It is readily distinguished, however, by the characters 

 mentioned in the above diagnosis. The front tibiae of the male have a carina-like swelling 

 on their lower face, which bears a broad tooth below the knee, and after that is continued in 

 a straight line, till it terminates in a sharply-elevated tooth opposite the third marginal tooth. 



Dras, Kargil, or Leh, 15th August, 9th Septemer 1873. Two individuals. 



06s. Jekel, in his classification of Geotrupes (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1865), gives as one of the 

 most important characters of his sub-genus Anoplotrupes that there are only two entire carinae 

 on the posterior tibiae, while in the subgenus Geotrupes (pr. d.) he states that there are three 

 entire carinae. In this, however, he was mistaken, for I find that in G. spiniger, Har., there 

 are truly three entire carinae ; in G. spiniger, Har., the upper carina is less entire, for it suffers 

 a slight double interruption, which is still more conspicuous in G. foveatus, Har., while in 

 G. mutator, Er., only the lower half (or less) of this carina exists, and in G. kashmirensis 

 it is entirely wanting. The species comprised by Jekel in his subgenus A noplotrupes are 

 but little concordant : thus his Anoplotrupes G. vernalis differs much more widely from Ano- 

 plotrupes G. sylvaticus than this does from Geotrupes (pr. d.); the sub-genus Anoplotrupes 

 should therefore be entirely suppressed, for it is much less natural than the other subgenera 

 established by M. Jekel in the able and satisfactory memoir to which I have alluded. 



20. SCARAB./EUS SYLVATICUS, Panz., var. 



The two individuals of this species differ considerably from any European specimens 

 I have seen ; they are proportionally narrower, on the upper side are of a black colour a little 

 tinted with brassy, on the under side are entirely black, and the club of the antenna is black. 

 These characters do not, however, seem to me to be of such a nature as to warrant their 

 specific value. 



Sind Valley. 



TROX (Munich Cat.). 

 21. TROX PROCERUS, Har. 

 Jhelam Valley, July 1873. A single individual. 



