16 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



This small species has the general appearance of a Bradycellus. The thorax at first 

 sight appears quadrate, but the sides are gently arcuated and just before the hind angle 

 very slightly incurved, so as to make the hind angles rectangular ; hut there is some little 

 individual variation in this respect. The frontal foveae are linear and cross the suture to the 

 epistome which they invade for a short distance ; their outer edge (towards the eye) is 

 deepest, and the line is there so sharply incised that their border is vertical, in some lights 

 appearing cariniform. 



Hob. No locality. Taken in the latter part of the journey ; on the Pamir or near 

 Yarkand. 



49. AMATHITIS BADIOLA. 



Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 717. 



A. rufescenti (Dej.) proxime affinis, at angustior, corporeque infra nigro. Oblonc/a, 

 depressa, subtus nigra, supra capite thoraceque rufo-castaneis (illo obscuriwi) elytris sub- 

 fnsco-badiis, interdum aeneo-nitidis, striis obscurioribus : capite minus elongate, oculis multo 

 minus quam in A. rufescenti prominulis : thorace elytris angustiori, ante medium modice 

 rotundato-dilatato, prope basin angustato, ibique lateribiis obliquis, angulisque posticis vioc 

 rectangulis (sed apice acutis} ; basi toto discrete punctato, foveis modice impresses, carinaque 

 vix elevata : elytris pnnctulato-striatis, interstitiis planis ; corpore subtus nigro-nitido ; 

 partibus oris, antennis, pedibusque fulvo-testaceis. Menti dente prominulo, triangulari. $ 

 tibiis posticis intus parce breviter pubescentibus. 



Long. 4 lin. 



Nearly allied to A. rufescens, but abundantly distinct. Its smaller head, much less 

 prominent eyes, and relatively smaller thorax, distinguish it at once, independently of the 

 light brown colour of the elytra. The distinct equilateral triangular tooth of the mentum 

 distinguishes it from A. subplanata of Putzeys, 



Hab. One of Stoliczka's latest captures. The majority of the specimens bear no 

 locality ; but one example clearer in the colour of the elytra is ticketed as from the neigh- 

 bourhood, of Sanju. 



50. AMATHITIS KTJENLTJNBNSIS. 



Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 717. 



Valde elonqatus, modice convexus, pallide ferrugineus, antennis pedibusque gracilibus, 

 illarum articulo tertio cceteris multo longiori : thorace elytris multo angustiori, late cordato, 

 lateribus antice fortiter arcuatis, postice sinuatim angustato, angulis posticis acutis ; supra 

 impunctato, foveis basalibus latis, vagis, carinaque prope angulutn indistincte elevata : elytris 

 elongato-ovatis, apice paulo sinuatis, striis Icevibus modice impressis. 



Long. 5 lin. ? . 



A species remarkable for its very slender antennae and long legs, apparently allied to 

 A. longipennis (Chaudoir) and allies from the Altai, none of which I have seen. The mentum 

 is scarcely toothed in the middle of its ernargination, and the horny ligula is very broad and 

 truncated at the apex. The anterior tibiae are much dilated and compressed towards the 



