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stercorarius, Har. ; it will not, however, be possible to consider this conclusively established 
until the male has been found and examined. 
19. Geotrupes kashmirensis, n. sp. 
G. stercorario (Haroldi) persimilis, sed elytris longioribus; oblong o-ovalis, supra virides- 
centi-niger, nitidus,subtuspurpureus,fulvo-pubescens; antennis piceo-rufis ; mandibulis extus 
rotundatis , ad apicem leviter unisinuatis ; elytris striis 14, minus distincte punctatis ; abdomine 
etiam in medio punctato, sed illo minus pubeseente ; tibiarum posticarum carina tertia 
{ab apice) omnino carente. 
Long. 24 mm ., lat. 13 mm. 
This species is closely allied to G. stercorarius, Harold, hut is rather more elongate, so as to 
look at first sight like G. mutator, Er. It is readily distinguished, however, by the characters 
mentioned in the above diagnosis. The front tihise of the male have a carina-like swelling 
on their lower face, which hears a broad tooth below the knee, and after that is continued in 
a straight line, till it terminates in a sharply-elevated tooth opposite the third marginal tooth. 
Dras, Kargil, or Leh, 15th August, 9th Septemer 1873. Two individuals. 
Ohs. — Jekel, in his classification of Geotrupes (Ann. Soc. Ent. Er., 1865), gives as one of the 
most important characters of his suh-genus Anoplotrupes that there are only two entire carinse 
on the posterior tibiae, while in the suhgenus Geotrupes (pr. d.) he states that there are three 
entire carinse. In this, however, he was mistaken, for I find that in G. spiniger, Har., there 
are truly three entire carinse ; in G. spiniger, Har., the upper carina is less entire, for it suffers 
a slight double interruption, which is still more conspicuous in G. foveatus, Har., while in 
G. mutator, Er., only the lower half (or less) of this carina exists, and in G. kashmirensis 
it is entirely wanting. The species comprised by Jekel in his suhgenus A noplotrupes are 
hut little concordant : thus his Anoplotrupes G. vernalis differs much more widely from Ano- 
plotrupes G. sylvaticus than this does from Geotrupes (pr. d.); the suh-genus Anoplotrupes 
should therefore he entirely suppressed, for it is much less natural than the other subgenera 
established by M. Jekel in the able and satisfactory memoir to which I have alluded. 
20. — ScARABiEUS STLVATicus, Panz., var. 
The two individuals of this species differ considerably from any European specimens 
I have seen ; they are proportionally narrower, on the upper side are of a black colour a little 
tinted with brassy, on the under side are entirely black, and the club of the antenna is black. 
These characters do not, however, seem to me to he of such a nature as to warrant their 
specific value. 
Sind Yalley. 
Trox (Munich Cat.). 
21.— Trox procerus, Har. 
Jhelam Yalley, July 1873. A single individual. 
