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angles : elytra more or less elongated and acuminate behind, sutural region more or less 

 depressed ; minutely, sparsely, and irregularly punctulate ; smooth, or slightly irregularly 

 wrinkled, or feebly costate ; base rather strongly arcuately emarginate, but with the fold 

 entire and continuous from the humeral angle to the scutellum : humeral angle rather 

 strongly produced : flanks of prothorax and prosternum finely and not closely punctured, 

 the latter very strongly thickened at each side between the coxae ; base of mesosternum very 

 strongly and densely punctured ; base of metasternum and of first abdominal segment rather 

 coarsely, but not closely, punctured, the rest of their surface, as well as the other abdominal 

 segments, very finely and remotely punctured. 



Length 4-| to 5f lines. 



Yangihissar, Kogyar. 



This species has completely the aspect, and many of the characters, of the genus Col- 

 poscelis. The third joint of the antennae, however, is but little longer than the second ; the 

 antennary orbits are not separated from the epistoma by a broad, deep impression, this 

 latter being less prominent, and exhibiting no tendency to become umbonate, as it does in 

 Colposcelis. The form, &c., of the eye is completely that of Colposcelis. The prothorax 

 is as long as it is broad in its widest part, and is slightly angulately rounded at the base. 

 The elytra are as deeply emarginate at the base, and the humeral angle is as strongly pro- 

 duced, as in Colposcelis. The middle and hind tibise are distinctly hispid, the latter being 

 also elongated and feebly flexuous in the <? . 



It is in the genus Anatolica that we find species with mandibles edentate on their upper 

 margin : in some species the mandibles are thick, and provided with a distinct tooth above, 

 which is always the most developed in the right mandible : in others (in both sexes) they 

 are more slender, and the tooth is either but faintly indicated, or is entirely wanting : the 

 present species is in this latter case. 



MlCRODERA LATICOLLIS. 



Approaching M. gracilis, Esch., in habit, but more robust. Black, shining : head moder- 

 ately, prothorax closely, elytra sparsely and minutely, punctured. Prothorax moderately 

 convex, transverse, widest before the middle, well rounded at the sides, strongly contracted 

 behind to the base ; base broadly margined, rounded, a little sinuate at each side ; apex feebly 

 sub-sinuately emarginate; all the angles depressed, the anterior rounded, the posterior obtuse : 

 elytra elongate, oval, and rather sharply produced at apex ; epipleural fold uninterruptedly 

 continued round the shoulders : the parapleurse entirely, the sides of all the sterna and of 

 the abdomen coarsely, closely, and confluently punctured, finely and remotely so on their 

 middle. 



Length 5| lines. 



Kashgar, Yangihissar, Kogyar. 



MlCRODERA PARVICOLLIS. 



In habit approaching M. convexa, Tausch, but prothorax more rounded anteriorly, 

 broadest before the middle, thence gradually contracted to the base, which is much mere 

 strongly margined, and the elytra more broadly oval. 



