SCIENTIFIC RESULTS 



OF 



THE SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



COLEOPTEEA. 



GEODEPHAGA AND 



BY H. W. BATES, E.R.S., E.L.S. 





 INTRODUCTORY REMAKES. 



THE Coleopterous insects of the two great tribes which form the subject of the present 

 memoir were collected chiefly during the winter months. It is on this account, probably, 

 that the collection contains so few species of Longicornia, which ought to be abundant in 

 summer on flowers in the elevated valleys, as they are in Northern Europe, in Siberia, and in 

 the Rocky Mountains. A similar remark may be made with regard to the Cicindelidce family 

 of Geodephaga, 4 species only of which were collected, three being Indian, taken in the Jhelam 

 Valley, and one north of the Himalaya, which proves to be a new species, allied to a species of 

 Paloearctic type found in the Altai. The Carabidce are more numerous, the species of this 

 family wintering generally in the imago state and being found readily in their usual haunts 

 in the autumnal and early spring months. They afford occasion, however, for only one general 

 remark, namely, that all the species without exception from the region north of the 

 Himalaya are of European types, eight out of the 63 species collected being identical with 

 European species, and the remainder either new species of European genera, or species of similar 

 type previously described from the neighbourhood of the Caspian, or from Western and Northern 

 Asia. The few that were found at Murree, in the Jhelam Valley, or in Ladak are either Indian 

 and subtropical (e.g., Colpodes ovaliceps, Pristomachcerus chalcocephalus, Hypolithus perlucens, 

 &c.), or North Indian modifications of Palsearctic types (e.g., Carabus caschmirensis et stolicz- 

 kanus, Hypsineplius ellipiicus), or well-marked and distinct species of; Palaearctic genera, e.g., 

 Bradytus compactus, Acinopus striolatus, Harpalus japonicus, Anchomenus politissimus, 

 Molops piligerus. 



GEODEPHAGA. 



1. ClCINDELA STOLICZKANA. 

 Bates, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 713. 



C. Burmeisteri (Fisch.) affinis, sed minor, thorace bremori, etc. Nigra corpore subtus, 

 pedibw, antennarumque basi chalybeo-violaceis, elytris lunula humerali et apicali (hac antice 



