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joint of anterior and middle tarsi. The head appears ovate and small, owing to the unsalient 
eyes and the continued width and fulness far behind the eyes, the short neck close to the 
thorax only being contracted ; the upper surface also at the neck is depressed. The palpi 
are not notably elongated, and the apical joints are but slightly narrowed to the apex and 
briefly truncated. The third antennal joint is naked and of the same length as the fourth 
The thorax is widest a little before the middle and the sides are there slightly angulated ; 
the anterior angles are prominent, the posterior very obtuse, almost rounded. The tarsi are 
clothed beneath with long soft hairs, longest on the fourth joint as characteristic of the 
genus Colpodes. 
Sah. — Murree. 
41. — Argutor difficilis ? 
Chaudoir, Enuin. Cavab. Caucas, p. 136. 
Sab— A. single example of an Argutor, from Sanju, closely allied to the common 
European A. strenuus (Panzer). Erom its somewhat larger size, I think it likely to be the 
species, or variety, above-named. 
42. — Molops piliferus. 
Bates, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 718. 
Niger, nitidus ; thorace late cor dato, post medium subsinuatim angustato, angulis posticis 
rectis ; antice juxta marginem lateralem punctis decern longe piliferis lineatim dispositis : 
elytris elongato-ovatis, convexis, prope apicem fortiter sinuatis, supra exarato-siriatis, 
striis 7 — 8 valde approximate, 7ma uninter r upte punctatis, punctis longe piliferis, inter stitiis 
dorsalibus planis, tertio et quinio apice pilifero-punctatis. 
Long. 6 — 7 lin. 
Distinguished from all its European congeners by the remarkable row of punctures along 
the seventh elytral stria, each bearing an extremely long stiff hair : a similar row of hairs ac- 
companies the lateral margin of th^s thorax, at the rounded anterior part, and a group of the 
same is situated near the inner margin of each eye. The general shape of the insect is 
similar to that of M. elatus ; but the thorax is more fully rounded anteriorly and more 
narrowed posteriorly, the hind angles being rectangular and not abruptly prominent. The 
striae of the elytra are more sharply impressed, not distinctly punctured, and the interstices 
are plane. 
Sab. — Murree. 
43. — Amara trivialis. 
Gyllenhal, Fauna Suec. vi, 240. 
Sab.— Tyro examples : Sind Valley ; agreeing tolerably well with West European speed 
mens. 
