1878.] D. Sharp — J!^eiv Colcoirterous Insects. 109 



obscurely rufo-piceous. Abdomen : the basal segment with bright yellow 

 pubescence, on the second and third it is black, and on the following seg- 

 ments it is bright ferruginous ; beneath, obscurely ferruginous, and the 

 segments fringed with rufo-fulvous pubescence. 

 Length Q\ lines. 



Hah. Moolaiyet. Alt. 3-6000 ft. 



19. Apis indica, Fabr., Ent. Syst., Supp. p. 274. 



20. Apis florea, Fabr., Ent. Syst., II, p. 341. 



21. Teigon^a teeminata, n. sp. 



Worker. Black : head and thorax semiopaque, abdomen smooth and 

 shining. The anterior margin of the clypeus, the labrum, mandibles, and 

 basal half of the scape in front, pale ferruginous ; the apical joint of the 

 flagellum pale. The margins of the mesothorax pale ferruginous ; the 

 scutellum fringed with short fulvous pubescence, the tarsi, except the basal 

 joints, ferruginous ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures and tegu- 

 Ise testaceous. The base and apex of the abdomen rufo-testaceous, the 

 former with two black spots ; beneath pale rufo-testaceous. 

 Length 2\ lines. 



XII. — 'Preliminary diagnoses of new Coleopterous Insects helonging to the 

 families Dytiscidse, Staphylinidse, and Scarabseidse ohtained hy the late 

 Db. F. Stoliczka during the 2nd mission to Yarhand under SiB 

 Douglas Forsyth. — By D. Sharp. 



DYTISCIDiE. 

 1. Agabus dichrous. 



A. ollongo-ovalis, nitidus, suhtus niger, supra testaceus, vertice nigro, 

 rufo-himaculato, antennis pedihusque testaceis, femoribus in medio late ni- 

 gris ; scutello fusco ; elytris apicem versus vix fusco-nehulosis. Long. 8 

 mm., lat. 4 mm, 



Hab. a single male individual found on the road across the Pamir 

 from Sarikol to Panjah. 



2. Ilybius cinctus. 



I. ovalis, angustulus, parum convexus, suhtus fer rug ineus ; supra fus- 

 co-ceneus, prothoracis elytrorumqiie laterihus late testaceis ; suhnitidus, sub' 

 tilissime reticulatus. Long. Si mm., lat. vix 4| mm. 



Hab. Yangihissar. 



