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Show 1878.] MR. H. w. BATES O N N E W COLEOPTERA. 713 group to which our common Starling belongs contains the species :- St. vulgaris, L. ; St. indicus, Hodgs. (Nepaul) ; St. humei, Brooks (= nitens, Hume, = ambiguus, Hume) ; St. purpurascens, Gould; and St. poltaratskyi, mihi (= humei, Gould). All these species are well marked, and distinguishable even in winter plumage and in the young state, as I intend to show in a more extended description of them. 10. O n new Species of Coleopterous Insects (Geodephaga and Longicornia) taken by Dr. Stoliczka during the Forsyth Expedition to Kashgar in 1873-74. By H. W . BATES, F.Z.S. [Eeceived June 17, 1878.] The following are preliminary diagnoses of new genera and species of Coleoptera, of the groups above mentioned, taken during the mission of Sir T. Douglas Forsyth to the Amir of Kashgar in 1873-4. Complete descriptions will hereafter appear in the general work on the results of the expedition, now in course of publication at Calcutta. GEODEPHAGA. CLCINDELA STOLICZKANA. C. burmeisteri (Fischer) affinis, sed minor. Nigra ; corpore subtus, pedibus antennarumque basi chcdybeo-violaceis; elytris lunula humercdi et apicali fasciaque mediana, lata, abbreviata, recta flavo-cdbis ; thorace brevi, lateribus fere rectis, supra granulatim strigoso; elytris minute, haud confertim granulatis ; pcdpis nigris, cdbo-setosis ; labro albo, convexo, medio rotundato producto, unidentato ; corpore subtus pedibusque sparsim cdbo-pilosis. Long 6-7% lin- North of the Kuen-lun. Exact locality not given. CARABUS STOLICZKANUS. C. caschmirensi (Kollar) affinis. Maxime elongatus et angustus, 'niger subnitidus; thorace late subcordato-quadrato, angulis retrorsum productis, acutis ; elytris angustis, post perparum rotundato-dilatatis, dorso tuberculorum tripliei inter se carina unica separatis; menti clente verticcditer valde convpresso. Long. 14-15 lin. Murree. DlCHIROTRICHUS ALTICOLA. Oblongus, supra testaceo-fidvus, capite (maculis rufis exceptis), PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1878, No. XLVI. 46 |
