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CIIEYS0MELIIO3. 



very fine punctures irregularly arranged in longitudinal series, 

 ■which are difficult to count. 

 Length, 7-8 mm. 



Assam (Chennell). Darjeeling : Lebong, 5000 ft., ix. 1908, 

 29 specimens (Lefroy, Pusa Coll.). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



In the origiual description Baly writes about the prothorax : 

 " impressed on either side near the anterior angle with a 

 shallow fovea." I have examined all the specimens, including the 

 type, in the British Museum, but I cannot find a trace of the 

 shallow fovea. 



61. Potaninia collaris, Weise. 



Potaninia collaris, Weise, Deutsche Ent. Zeitsclir. 1905, p. 216. 



Underside fuscous, antennae and legs black, upper surface very 

 shining, brown. Prothorax slightly transverse, sparsely puuctate, 

 sides subparallel. Elytra finely punctate, the punctures more or 

 less arranged in rows. Length 5'5 mm. 



This species can be recognized by its proportionately large 

 prothorax, which is scarcely half broader than long, with the sides 

 almost parallel ; the prothorax is rectangular in shape, being as 

 broad at the large, almost right-angled anterior angles as at the 

 postal i>r ones, and only very feebly rounded between them*. 

 The elytra are as broad at the base as the base of the prothorax, 

 up to the middle slightly broadened, then for a little distance 

 almost parallel, and after that quickly narrowing, while the apex 

 is narrowly rounded. The humerus is the same as in the other 

 species, being sharply cut off on the inner side f. 



Darjeeling (Fruhstorffer). 



The above is a translation from the original description in 

 Latin and German. I have not been able to recognize this 

 species, the type of which I have not seen. But I have before 

 me nearly 30 specimens of a Potaninia from Darjeeling, which I 

 have referred to the preceding species, P. assamensis, after 

 comparison with the type thereof, as I cannot discover any 

 substantial difference between them. I have practically no doubt 

 in my mind that P. collaris, Weise, is a synonym of P. assamensis, 

 Baly. The differences pointed out by Weise may well fall within 

 the range of individual variation. 



Genus ENT0M0SCELIS, Clievrolat. 



Entomoscelis, Clievrolat, Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat. iii, 1843, p. 656, and 

 v, 1844, p. 335. 



No description of this genus need be given here, nor is it 

 included in the key of genera on pp. 16-17; since, as already 

 explained, I believe that the single Indian insect referred to it, 



* dazwischen nur ganz unbedeuteud geruudet. 

 t innen kraftig abgesetat. 



