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congeners. The three basal dilated joints of the $ anterior tarsi are not triangular, hut 
ovate, their angles being perfectly rounded. Underneath, the dilated male joints are clothed 
with long ragged scale-hairs, loosely arranged ; hut this is the case with the European species 
of the genus ; and the statement of Schaum and others is therefore erroneous, that they are 
“ spongiosi ” and bring the genus within the Anisodacty lines sub-family. The genus is, in 
fact, allied to Ophonus. The upper surface of D. alticolus is light tawny or reddish-brown, 
redder on the thorax and a large spot on each side of the head. The rest of the head is 
brassy-black. The disk of the thorax has a dusky spot, sometimes indistinct. The disk of 
the elytra has, posteriorly, covering interstices 3 and 4, an elongate black spot. The 
species is closely allied to the South Russian and Turkestan D. discicollis, Dej., differing 
chiefly in the obliteration of the hinder angles of the thorax. 
Sab. — Pamir, between Sirikol and Panga. 
21. — HAEPABTJS C2EETTLEATUS. 
Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 714 
-E 'longato-oblongus, glaber, thorace transversim quadrato, postice distincte angustato, 
lateribus aveuatis , angiitis post ids votuiidatis , basi utrinque late suberebre punctato, margine 
basali bisinuato : elytris apice foriiter sinuatis , supra striatis , interstitiis plants impunctatis, 
ertio unipunctato. 
$ . Supra capite thoraceque nigris polilis, elytris caeruleis, subviolaceis, nitidis ; antennis 
nigris , articulo basali rufo : corpore subtus nigro, pectore medio pedibusque rufopiceis ; abdo- 
mine medio niiido. Immaturo toto corpore castaneo-rufo , nitido, elytris violaceis. 
^ . Nigro-vel rufo-castanea , raro obscuro-nigra ; elytris opacis interdum violaceo-tinctis, 
apice fortius (jut in H. aeneo 9 ) sinuatis. 
An elongate species, similar in form to S. liospes (Sturm), but without its punctuation. 
Thorax slightly narrowed behind, with hinder angles, but blunted or rather rounded at their 
apices. The elytra are destitute of punctuation, except the usual marginal row, and their 
apices are rather deeply sinuate in both sexes, but most so in the ? . The sexual diversity 
in colour is constant in mature individuals, the male having the head and thorax glossy 
black, with violet blue elytra ; the female being chestnut-red or brown, with elytra sometimes 
tinged with violet. Terminal spur of the anterior tibise lanceolate, simple. 
Sab . — Yangihissar and Kogyar. 
22. — Haepaltjs melaneus. 
Bates, Proc.SZool. Soc. 1878, p. 714 
H. calceato (Dufts.) forma coloreque simiUs, at thorace fere impunctato angulisque posti- 
cis obtusis. Oblongus, modice elongatus, niger nitidus, elytris $ opacis ; antennis et palpis 
nigris , articulis omnibus apice piceo-rufis : thorace transversim quadrato, postice leviter 
angustato, angulis posticis obtusis lateribus antice modice arcuaiis, basi utrinque cage vix 
punctato, fovea lineari impresso : elytris apice paullulum sinuatis, supra convexis , simpliciter 
striatis, interstitiis modice convexis , tertio unipunctato. 
Long. 6 lin. 
