480 Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial FJymenojytera. 



leaves the oxnu.s miclassificd, tliough associating it provision- 

 ally with tiie Larriilfo, 



Most of the species belong to the Palsearctic and Ethiopian 

 "Regions, only one species iiaving been found in the part of 

 India really belonging to the Oriental Region, though seven 

 must now be included in the fauna of British India. The 

 collections of Colonel Nurse and Mr. Oomber are particularly 

 interesting, showing that the fauna of Quetta is maiidy 

 Palsearctic, while at Karachi and Deesa there is a strong 

 Palffiarctic element in a fauna that is mainly Indian, the 

 country between the Rajputana desert and the passes into 

 Beluchistan being a borderland between the two regions. 



Pal'iTus variegatus, Fabr. 



TipJn'a vavier;ata, Fabr. Spec. Insect, p. 451 (1781). $. 

 Crabroflaiyipe^, Fabr. Spec. Insect, p. 470 (1781). 

 Palarnsjlavipes, Latr. (Jeu. Crust. & Insect, i. (1806). 



As I have previously pointed out, the name varip.gulns 

 should be used for this species. 



Pdlarufi fortistriohttus, Cam. 



Palarus fortistriolatus, Cam. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xx. p. 91 

 (1907). 



This species is nearest to P. spinoke, Sauss., but has tiie 

 pleura} more closely punctured. There is no tubercle or 

 lateral spine on the sixth ventral segment of the male. 



Pakirus iridicui^, Nurse. 

 Palayas mdictis, Nurse, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xv. p. 4 (1903). 



This is ])robably a geographical race of P. donjalennSj 

 Klug, and is somewhat intermediate between the typical 

 form and P. aurantiacus, Rad. Females from Karachi (ex 

 coll. Comber) have the median segment black in the middle, 

 as in King's figure, the mesonotum black, with an obscure 

 ferruginous line on each side, and the wings flavo-hyaline at 

 the base. Otherwise the specimens answer well to Radosz- 

 kowski^s description. 



Palarus funerarius, Moraw. 



Falarus fimevayius, Moraw. Hor. Soc. ent. Ross, xxiii. p. 136 (1889). 

 Palarus quiescens, Nurse, Jouru. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xv. p. 5 

 (1903). 



Ilah. Deesa [Nurse) ; Karachi [Cornier) ; Mungnlia 

 [Moraw itz). 



