new genera and species of Hetei'omera. 473 



irregularly finely raiiricate punctate and intricately rngulose; 

 apex and epipleuraj imbricately tuberculose, the tubercles 

 ilattened and pointed behind: legs and antenna) rather short 

 and robust. Length 7^8^ Hues. 

 Tanktze to Chagra, Pankong Valley, 



Blaps Kashgarensis, n. sp. 



Elongate, black, elytra more or less nitid: head and prothorax 

 finely remotely punctured, sometimes obsoletely so on the latter: 

 prothorax regularly convex, sides well roimded in front, but 

 little contracted behind ; base decidedly wider than apex, hind 

 angles obtuse, fr'ont angles well rounded; median line faintly 

 impressed: elytra more or less elongate-ovate, somewhat rapidly 

 declivous behind, apex terminating, in the ^ , in a distinct, 

 moderately elongate mucro ; convex, slightly depressed at the 

 suture; very finely, sometimes almost obsoletely, seriate-punctate, 

 the punctures simple, intervals finely punctured, and more or 

 less feebly convex: legs rather long: first ventral segment in $ 

 emargiuate at each side and with a villose tuft of rufous hairs, 

 more or less strongly transversely rugose, and with traces of a 

 callosity on the middle. Length 9-13 lines, 



Kashgar, Yangi Hissar. 



Prosodes trisidcata, n. sp. 



$ Elongate, parallel, pitchy-brown, prothorax, legs and 

 antennae approaching castaneous : head and prothorax finely 

 sparsely punctate, a little stronger on the sides of the latter: 

 prothorax gently convex, uneven at the sides, a fovea near the 

 hind angle, and several faint depressions on the disc: lateral 

 margins finely rugulose; sides slightly rounded anteriorly, but 

 little narrowed posteriorly, widest before the middle ; front 

 angles depressed and narroAvly rounded, hind angles rectangular: 

 elytra not wider at base than base of prothorax, depressed on 

 the back, gradually attenuated and gently declivous behind, 

 margins reflexed at apex; trisulcate, the sulci broad and shallow 

 and somewhat densely irregularly granulous; intervals subcosti- 

 form, nearly smooth; both sulci and costaj effaced at the base: 

 epipleurai very broad, vertical, smooth, shining, the fold also 

 smooth and liroad, obliquely and sinuously narrowing froni 

 humeral angle to apex: underside piccous, nitid, abdomen feebly 

 wrinkled at the sides: legs rather slender, hind tibia; feebly 

 fiexuous. 



