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minute obtuse angle in the middle, hind margin straight, feebly sinuate ; fore 
and hind angles of lobes a little more than 90 , rounded. Elytra very long, 
parallel-sided. Hind femora moderately broad, rather robust, subapical 
filiform part not developed. 
General coloration is that of sand. Head with small brownish spots, forming 
two occipital and two postocular stripes. Pronotum with lateral keels shining, 
paler than disc ; lateral lobes darker along their upper margin and with a narrow 
whitish border beneath. Elytra sand-coloured in the basal fifth part and 
colourless in the rest, with a longitudinal row of brownish spots in the intercalate 
area and 3-4 smaller and more feebly colom-ed spots in the apical third, just 
behind the second radial vein ; several feebly coloured spots are also scattered 
on the whole apical half of elytra ; aU veins and venules are sand-coloured with 
small irregular darker knots. Wings hyalinous ; veins, especially near the 
apex, brownish. Hind femora with superno-median area of the general color- 
ation, while the externomedian area is whitish ; irmer surface unicolorous ; 
inner genicular lobe with a round dark-brown spot. 
Hind tibiae violaceous. 
their upper surface paler, especially towards the base ; 
brown tips. 
spines pale basally, with 
Length of body 
33, 5 mm. 
„ pronotum 
6 
„ elytra 
30, 5 
„ hind femur 
15, 5 
Type : Muscat, Arabia, G. Jayakar. 
This species seems to be related to P. geniculata, Bol. (Novit. Zool., XX, 1917, 
p. 608, Xo. 9) from Algerian Sahara, but it is well characterised by the structure 
of frontal ridge, foveolae of vertex, shape of pronotum and coloration of 
hind tibiae. 
18. DociosTAUEtrs CEASsiuscTJLUs,-Pant. (=hauensteini Bob).- — Persia : Poush- 
e-kouh, Ai'kovaz, J. de Morgan, 1904 (Paris Museum). 
19. Dociostatteus maeoccanus, Thunb. — Persia : Abadch, Peter Paschen 
(Bombay N. H. Society). 
20. Eambueiella teuchuana, F. W. — Syria, Aleppo, F. G. Aldous (British 
Museum).- — The genera Ramburiella, Bol. and Pallasiella, Kirby, are evidently 
identical, since Ramburiella hispanica, and Pallasiella truchmana, F. W., 
are undoubtedly congeneric. As Bolivar’s name for the genus is the oldest of 
the two, the genus must be called Ramburiella, and it includes three species ; 
R. hispanica, Ramb .,R. truchmana, F. W. and R. bolivari, Kuthy.* 
21. HiloLOPtrs THALASsiNUs, Rossi. — Baghdad, ii., 17 (Bombay N, H. Society) . 
22. HioLOPUS STEEPEN.s STEEPENS, Latr. — Syria, Aleppo, F. G. Aldous ; Bagh- 
dad (British Museum) ; Persia : Susa, J. de Morgan (Paris Museum). — This 
Mediterranean species has never been previously recorded from the Desert 
subregion and its occurrence in Baghdad and Susa in the typical form is quite 
interesting, since in S. W. Persia another race occurs, which is described below. 
23. HllOLOPITS STEEPENS DESEETICOLA, Subsp. n. 
Differs from the typical Mediterranean form in the following characters : — 
Pronotum more distinctly constricted, less convex above ; elytra somewhat 
longer ; general coloration brownish-grey ; elytra with wider fight transverse 
bands : wings feebly infumate apically ; hind femora with black points along 
the lower carina of the area externomedia and with three indistinct fasciae in the 
same area ; inner side of femora pale with two black fasciae ; hind tibiae bluish 
with black base, and a pale subbasal ring, followed by a dark grey ring. 
* Described as Stethophyma bolivari Kuthy (Ann. Mus. Hung., 1907, p. 431), and 
again by me as Arcyptera elegans, Uvar. (Horae Soc. Entom. Rossicae, Vol. 39, 1910. 
p. 370; see also Bull. Mus. Caucase, xii, 1919, p. 156); this species is very closely 
related to R. hispanica, Ramb. and is pos.«ibly but a geographical race of the latter 
