'}C)0 IMi. K. Ct. r)lair on Cohoptera of the 



anterior halt", being concealed in its posterior lialf hy a blunt 

 costa, wliicli projects above it and meets its fellow at tiie 

 apex. On the disc arc faint indications of striic with feebly 

 convex intervals ; these become a little more raised behind, 

 especially the third, which unites with the marginal costa 

 (7th interval) a little before the apex. The apex in both 

 sexes projects a little beyond the last ventral segment, but 

 is not produced into a caudal process. Prosternal process 

 rounded, declivous behind coxic ; legs moderately slender, 

 femora feebly clavate, first joint of posterior tarsi symmetrical, 

 as long as the two following together. 



(^ without abdominal fascicle, longer and narrower than ? . 



Size, (^ 21 X 7-5 mm., ? 19 x 8 ram. 



Two ? ? collected by the present Expedition, two S S 

 and two ? ? by the Thibet Expedition, Tutigu, Sikkim, 

 Jidy 1903 (I <? ), and Gyangtse, 13,000 feet, June 1904-. 



In the synopsis given by Seidlitz (LOrielis. Ins. Deutsch. 

 Abt. i. Bd. V. 1898), this species would come in Abth. ii. 

 gr. 14, next to B. gentilis, Fairm. Prom this it differs in its 

 liirger size, narrower form, stouter leos, more distinctly 

 granulate elytra, and the very characteristic costic visible on 

 the a|)ical declivity. 



In this last particular it is approached by B. indica, Hope, 

 from Nepal, but the latter is much smaller (11 mm.), has 

 the thorax much narrower than the elytra, which arc strongly 

 rounded laterally. 



Blaps sp. 

 A single ? , possibly only a form of the last. 



Fam. Cistelidae. (Alleculid^.) 



Cteniopinus semicoccineus, sp. n. 



Dull black, with the elytra and abdomen scarlet. Head 

 elongate, densely punctate above; anteniue slender, in (J 

 reaching middle of elytra, in $ a little shorter, second joint 

 not longer than wide, the rest elongate, the eleventh suddenly 

 constricted so that the apical third is much narrower than 

 the rest. Last joint of maxillary palpi elongate, a little 

 longer and wider than the preceding. Thorax nearly flat, 

 canipanulate, widest at base, sides sharply carinate in basal 

 lialf, but ol)tuse or rounded towards apex, disc densely 

 {)unctate. l*]lytra subparallel, strite sharply punctate, but 

 not much impressed, the first, third, fifth, etc. intervals 

 narrower than the rest, the broad intervals containing small 



