32 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



obtuse, the hinder ones obtusely angulate ; upper surface moderately convex, the lateral 

 margin rather broadly reflexed, disc irregularly excavated ; finely but not very closely 

 punctured, interspaces minutely granulose-strigose. Scutellum trigonate, shining black. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax, oblong, moderately convex, faintly excavated below the 

 basilar space, more strongly punctured than the thorax, the punctures pale fuscous. 



Sab. Jhelam Valley. 



17. MlMASTRA GRACLLIS. 



Baly, Cist. Ent. ii, 187582, p. 378. 



Elongata, attenuata, pallide flava, nitida, antennis (basi exceptis) fuscis, oculis nigris, 

 yenubus tarsisque picfiis ; thorace transverso, basi emarginato, disco irregulariter excavato, 

 lateribus late marginatis, ante medium angulatis, elytris parallelis, tenuiter punctatis. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Head strongly exserted ; encarpse and clypeus thickened, the former bounded above by a 

 transverse groove, trigonate, contiguous for their whole length ; antennae very slender, fili- 

 form, nearly equal to the body in length, second joint about half the length of the basal one, 

 nearly a third shorter than the third ; three basal joints pale flavous, the rest pale fuscous. 

 Thorax transverse ; sides broadly margined, nearly parallel, distinctly angled just beyond the 

 middle, thence obliquely converging to the apex ; disc broadly and irregularly excavated, 

 impunctate. Scutellum trigonate. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, elongate ; disc 

 very minutely punctured, very faintly wrinkled. Outer edge of knees, together with the 

 tarsi, pale piceous. 



Sab. Murree. 



18. AGELASTICA ORIENTALIS. 



Baly, Cist. Ent. ii, 187582, p. 379. 



Elongato-ovato, convexa, metallico-ccerulea, nitida, antennis nigris; thorace elytrisque 

 crebre punctatis, illo lateribus rotundatis. 



Long. 3^ 4 lin. 



Encarpge and clypeus thickened, the former pyriform, contiguous, separated from the 

 front by a deep transverse groove ; antennae filiform, half the length of the body, the second 

 joint short, the third one-half longer than the second, more than half the length of the 

 fourth. Thorax nearly three times as broad as long ; sides rounded, slightly converging in 

 front ; the hinder angles rounded, the anterior ones obtuse ; disc closely punctured. Scutel- 

 lum trigonate, shining, impunctate. Elytra rather broader than the thorax, oblong, closely 

 punctured. 



Sab. Neighbourhood of Sanju, apparently common. 



Closely allied to A. ccerulea, it may be known from that insect by the relative lengths 

 of the second and third joints of the antennae. 



