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each along, erect hair, in the seventh elytral stria, and for the strongly 

 cordate-quadrate thorax and flat elvtral interstices. Numerous 

 individuals perfectly agreeing with the Murree form were taken by 

 Mr. Leech in the Goorais Valley, but mingled with examples in 

 which the piliferous punctures are much less numerous, the elytral 

 interstices convex, and the thorax more quadrate than cordate. The 

 extreme form departs so much from the type that had there not 

 been a graduated series of intermediate examples, it might be 

 considered a distinct species. 



Var. M. depilatus. Plerumque minor, nigerrimus, nitidus ; thorace 

 antice mediocriter rotundato, j)Ostice minus sinuatim angustato, 

 angulis posticis jjaullo exstantihus, interdiim rectis ; elgtris 

 profunde striatis, interstitiis convexis, 8vo parum angustato 

 striaque 7 ma postice solum paueiter pilifero- punctata. 



Long. 11-13 millim. 



Goorais Valley ; Skardo. 



Pristonychus kashmirensis. 



C. cimmerio {Dej.) quoad fortnam subsitnilis. Apterus, niyer, 

 ( c? $ ) sericeo-opacus, capite thoraceciue nitidioribus, antennis 

 basi ivigris, ^ja/^is tarsisque rufo-piceis ; capite Icevi postice 

 a7tgustato, genis elongatis parum promiiientibus ; thorace per- 

 parum cordato ante medium leviter rotundato-ampliato, deinde 

 usque ad basin sitbrecte angustato, angulis posticis fere obtusis, 

 margine postico alte reflexo, supra j}assim vage transversim 

 strigoso ; elytris convexis ovatis i?iterdum postice dilatatis, ad 

 humeros angustis, convexis, acute striatis, striis subtilissime 

 punctulatis, interstitiis fere planis. Prosternum apice deflexum, 

 rotundatum. Trochanteres postici obtusi. Tibice omnes rectce. 

 Tarsi supra sparsim setifero-punctati, subtus posteriorum arti- 

 culo prima parce piloso, luiguiculis basi denticulatis ; tarsi antici 

 (S articulis tribus dilatatis subtus squamulatis. 



Long. 16-lS millim. 6 2 • 



Goorais Valley. 



The thorax varies much in outline, in extreme cases it is rather 

 strongly narrowed behind with the sides sinuated and hind angles 

 shghtly projecting and acute. 



Pristodactvla lacerans. 



Quoad formam P. leiii (Mannh.) similis. Elongatus, nigro- 

 nitidus; antennis, palpis, tibiis et tarsis picescenti-rufis ; capite 

 (cum oculis^ anguste ovato Icevi ; thorace subquadrato, antice 

 usque ultra medium leviter rotundato-dilatato, prope basin medio- 

 criter sinuato-angustato, angulis jwsticis rectis subacutis, intra 

 angulum incrassalo, ibique puncto setlgero ; foveis latis{interdum 

 profundis) hevibus ; elytris fere pai-allelis, mediocriter convexis, 

 apice vix' perspicue sinuafis, basi utrinque valde arcuata, acute 

 striatis, striis subtilissime baud profunde punctulatis, interstitiis 

 parum convexis, tertio versus apicem unipunctato {interdum im- 

 punctato). Tarsi subtus longe pilosi, 4 posticis lateraliter sulcu- 



