COLEOPTERA. 
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Resembles specimens from Northern India in every other respect, except that the hind 
trochanters are long and furcate at the apex, with one branch of the fork very short. The 
specimen is a female. 
34. — Sphodrus cordicollis. 
Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1854, i, p. 43. 
Hab, — Murree ; one example. 
Differs from Syrian specimens by its slightly broader and more ovate elytra. 
35. — CALATHUS MELANOCEPHALUS. 
Liu., Fauna Sueo. No. 795 : Putzey’s Mon. Calatli., p. 58. 
Hab— Pamir, between Sirikol and Panga. 
Many examples; differing from the ordinary type of Western Europe by the rather nar- 
rower and more parallel- sided thorax and elytra. According to Putzeys, alpine varieties occur 
which are modified in the same manner. 
Hab.— ? 
36. — Calathus angustatus. 
Koll. & Redtenb. in Hiigel’s Kaschmir, iv, ii, p. 500 (1844). 
Syn. C. Kollari, Putz., Mon, Calath, p. 56. 
37. — Calathus — ? 
77 ah . — A single example, in imperfect condition, ticketed “ Sind Valley it would pro- 
bably range in the section Hristodactyla. 
38. — Anchomenus ladakensis. 
Bates, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 718. 
A. parumpunctato {Lin.) prcxime affinis, sed gracilior , thorace longiori, etc. JElo7igato 
ovatus, gracilis, supra subfusco-cupreus, capite tlioraceque magis aeneis, interdum toto viridi- 
aeneus; corpore subtus nigro nitido ; femoribus nigropiceis , tibiis tarsisque rufo-piceis ; anten- 
nis piceo-fuscis, articulo basali rufo : capite Iceni , post oculos magis subito quam in A. parum- 
punctato angustato : thorace subqmdrato, lateribus leniter arcuatis, angulis posticis rotundatis 
ibique margine explanato-rejlexo , toto limbo alutaceo : elytris elongatis, murgine basali utvinque 
fortiter sinuato , lateribus parallels, supra acute striatis, inter stitiis planis, tertio 5-punctato. 
Long 3| lin. 
Closely allied to the common European A. parumpunctatus. At first sight it seems to differ 
only in its more slender, narrower form, and rather duller colour ; but on closer examination 
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