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Show 214 MR. H. w. BATES O N [Apr. 2, each a long, erect hair, in the seventh elytral stria, and for the strongly cordate-quadrate thorax and flat elytral interstices. Numerous individuals perfectly agreeing with the Murree form were taken by Mr. Leech in the Goorais Valley, but mingled with examples in which the piliferous punctures are m u c h less numerous, the elytral interstices convex, and the thorax more quadrate than cordate. The extreme form departs so much from the type that had there not been a graduated series of intermediate examples, it might be considered a distinct species. Var. M . depilatus. Plerumque minor, nigerrimus, nitidus; thorace antice mediocriter rotundato, postice minus sinuatim angustato, angulis posticis paullo exstantibus, interdum rectis; elytris profunde striatis, interstitiis convexis, 8vo parum angustato striaque 7ma postice solum pauciter pilifero-punctata. Long. 11-13 millim. Goorais Valley; Skardo. PRISTONYCHUS KASHMIRENSIS. C. cimmerio (Dej.) quoad formam subsimilis. Apterus, niger, ( 8 $ ) sericeo-opacus, capite thoraceque nitidioribus, antennis basi nigris, palpis tarsisque rufo-piceis ; capite Icevi postice angustato, genis elongatis parum prominentibus; thorace per-parum cordato ante medium leviter rotundato-ampliato, deinde usque ad basin subrecte angustato, angulis posticis fere obtusis, margine postico alte refiexo, supra passim vage transversim strigoso ; elytris convexis ovatis interdum postice dilatatis, ad humeros angustis, convexis, acute striatis, striis subtilissime punctulatis, interstitiis fere planis. Prosternum apice deflexum, rotundatum. Trochanters postici obtusi. Tibiee omnes rectce. Tarsi supra sparsim setifero-punctati, subtus posteriorum articulo primo parce piloso, unguiculis basi denticulatis ; tarsi antici c? articulis tribus dilatatis subtus squamulatis. Long. 16-18 millim. cS 2 • Goorais Valley. The thorax varies much in outline, in extreme cases it is rather strongly narrowed behind with the sides sinuated and hind angles slightly projecting and acute. PRISTODACTYLA LACERANS. Quoad formam P. leni (Mannh.) similis. Elongatus, nigro-nitidus ; antennis, palpis, tibiis et tarsis picescenti-rufis ; capite (cum oculis) anguste ovato leevi; thorace subquadrato, antice usque ultra medium leviter rotundato-dilatato, prope basin mediocriter sinuato-angustato, angulis posticis rectis subacutis, intra angulum incrassato, ibique puncto setigero ; foveis latis (interdum profundis) Icevibus; elytris fere parallelis, mediocriter convexis, apice vix perspicue sinuatis, basi utrinque valde arcuata, acute striatis, striis subtilissime haud profunde punctulatis, interstitiis parum convexis, tertio versus apicem unipunctato (interdum impunctato). Tarsi subtus longe pilosi, 4 posticis lateraliter sulcu- |
