COLEOPTERA. 



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Gronp SITARIDES. 



SITARIS (CRIOLIS) PECTORALIS. 



Shining testaceous, tips of mandibles, eyes, scutellum, meso- and meta-sterna, and their 

 flanks, black ; middle and hind coxae shining black : antennae filiform, last 7 joints fuscous 

 black, last joint elongate and tapering to a point : head broadly triangulate, convex, smooth, 

 faintly punctate : the epistoma is separated from the front by a deeply-impressed arched line, 

 and is in a lower plane than the front : labrum impressed on the disc, notched in front : eyes 

 strongly transverse, rather narrow, not prominent : prothorax convex, transverse, sides rounded, 

 and broadest, in the middle ; somewhat abruptly and strongly contracted anteriorly, less so 

 posteriorly ; faintly punctured : scutellum closely punctured, narrowly rounded behind ; the 

 part placed on the mesonotum is broad, faintly costate down the middle, and with a thickened 

 border at each side of a cinnamon-brown colour : elytra somewhat of a pale-cinnamon colour; 

 tapering gradually behind, and dehiscent from about a third of their length ; thinly clothed 

 with a fine, silky, greyish pubescence, and with two or three slightly flexuous costae, the outer 

 one less distinct : upper division of the tarsal claws closely finely pectinated. 



Length 4f lines. 

 Kogyar. 



COLEOPTERA HETEROMERA. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE II. 



Fig. 1. Syaefiis himalaicus. 



2. Ascelosodis ciliatus, 



3. grandis. 



4. intermeiiius. 



5. Anatolica montivaga. 



6. Microdera parvicollis. 



7. Cyphogenia plana. 



8. humeratis. 



9. Blaps perlonga. 



1 0. indicola. 



11. Prosodes trisulcata. 



12. Ccelocnemodes sloliczkanus. 



Fig. 13. Trigonoscelis lacerta. 



14. Plerocoma serrimargo. 



15. semicarinata. 



16. Bioramiif asidioides $. 



16. Idem, anterior tarsus. 



17. C/iianalus costipennis. 



18. Myatis humeralis. 



19. Penlhicus (Loboderus) gracilis. 



20. JJypocistela tenuipes. 



21. Meloe servulus. 



,, 22. Epicauta haagi $ . 



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