44 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



thorax and the basal portion of the elytra. The half dozen individuals before me show no 

 sexual differences, and are perhaps all females. If this be the case, and the male should prove 

 to have the head trituberculate, the species may then be satisfactorily placed in Erichson's 

 Section E., for it has all the characters assigned to that section except the sexual ones. 

 The clypeus is much emarginate and depressed in the middle in front, the sides of the emar- 

 gination are rounded, the head is coarsely and closely punctured in front, more finely on the 

 vertex, there is an excessively indistinct transverse line on the vertex, and on the middle 

 of it a slight gibbosity or prominence of the surface, not worth calling a tubercle. The 

 scutellum is rather narrow and parallel-sided, and is punctured except at the apex. The 

 striae of the elytra are quite as distinct at the apex as they are at the base : the sides of 

 the wing cases bear numerous white setae, which are long and conspicuous at the shoulders, 

 behind which they become gradually shorter and disappear altogether from the apical 

 half. 



The specimens are marked " a," indicating that the exact locality is unknown ; two 

 small specimens were, however, found at Yangihissar in April 18 7 L 



13. APHODIUS PARVTJLTJS, Har. 



A single individual found in the Jhelam Valley, July 1873, agrees exactly with speci- 

 mens from Abyssinia of this species recently described by Baron von Harold. I have in 

 my own collection some specimens of this species from Ajmere. 



14. APHODIUS KASHMIRENSIS, n. sp. 



Niger, nitidus, sat convexus, pedibus rufo-piceis, antennis rufis clava fusca; clypeo 

 anterius latins emarginato, et utrinque subacute prominulo ; prothorace punctis magnis pro. 

 fundis sat numerosis, aliisque minutis, margine basali distincto ; mlculo ante eum crenulato ; 

 elytris for liter crenato-striatis, interstitiis subtilissime, sparsim punctatis. 



Long. 6-6J mm., lat. 3J mm. 



I have seen only two specimens of this species ; they seem both to be females. I believe it 

 is an Aphodius belonging to the Section E of Erichson, although the form of the front of the 

 clypeus suggests rather that it may prove to be an Ammaecius when the mouth can be exam- 

 ined. It is almost as large as Scarabceus scybalarius, Fab., and somewhat similar in form to 

 that species. The head bears no distinct tubercles, but has an obsolete curved elevation some 

 distance behind the front, and on the middle of the vertex traces of an obsolete tubercle ; 

 its punctuation is moderately coarse and close, but irregular and rather indistinct. The 

 sculpture of the thorax consists of very large and very small punctures, the basal margin 

 is coarse and distinct, and the groove which precedes it is coarsely punctate so as to appear 

 crenulate. The scutellum is small and coarsely punctured ; the striae of the elytra are deep 

 quite to the apex, the middle ones being joined together, or not extending quite to the apex. 



Dras, Kargil, and Leh, 15th August to 9th September 1873. 



