10 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



30. HTPSINEPHTJS ELLIPTICTJS. 



Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 716. 



Piceo-niger vel castaneus, $ nitidus, ? sericeo-opacus, partibus oris, antetmis pedibus- 

 que testaceo-fnlvis : capite mox pone oculos angustato, fovcis frontalibus rotundatis ; thorace 

 quadrato, elytris angustiori, lateribus postice explanatis, arcuatis angulis postlcis obtusis, 

 supra impunctato, fovea utrinque basali vage impressa : elytris elongato-ovatis, apice modice 

 sinuatis, striatis, interstitio tertio. pnnctis parvis 5, quinto prope basin 2, septimo apicem versus 

 plurimis impressis, punctis marginalibus parvis. 



Long. 6 lin. 



Elongate elliptical, varying from pitchy black to castaneous. The lateral margins of 

 the thorax are gradually more and more explanated from the anterior to the posterior angles, 

 and the base has no distinct punctuation. The punctures of the elytra are somewhat variable 

 in number and position : there are 5 or 6 on the third interstice, mostly close to the second stria, 

 and 2 or 3 on the fifth near the base ; but in some examples the fifth interstice has a row of 

 punctures near the apex, like the seventh. The margin has a number of minute faintly 

 impressed punctures. 



jjab. Pour examples, two without locality, one marked ft (from the Knen-lun ?), and the 

 fourth from the Pangong Valley : this last has the thorax distinctly more dilated behind and 

 more rectangular hind angles than the others. 



31. HABPALTJS QTJADBICOLLIS. 



Selenophorus quadricottis, Kollar & Eedtenb. in Hugel's Kaschmir, iv, 2, p. 502. 



J2" a j. Between Dras and Leh. The authors above cited placed this species in the genus 

 Selenophorus from the simple emargination of the mentum. M. Putzeys, in his recent mono- 

 o-raph of the genus Selenophorus, has rightly restricted it to those Harpalince which have the 

 alternate interstices of the elytra pluripunctate and other characters in addition to the simple 

 mentum, and which belong all to America. S. quadricollis is very closely allied to the typical 

 Harpali, but probably a separate genus will eventually be formed for the species with edendate 

 mentum. 



32. STENOLOPHTJS MOBIO. 



Mene'tries, Catal. Raisonne' (1832), p. 136. Id., Insectes rec. p. Lehmann i, 25. 

 Solsky in Fedchenko's Turkestan, Zoology, torn, ii, v, Coleop. i, p. 88. 



Hab. Yangi Hissar ; one example. The species occurs in the neighbourhood of the Cas- 

 pian and in Mesopotamia near Bagdad. The Yangi Hissar specimen has a smaller and rounder 

 thorax than is presented by Bagdad examples with which I have compared it, 



33. SPHODRUS INDUS. 



Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1852, i. p. 6?, 



Hab. Murree ; one example. 



