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ders keeled, this keel slightly obliquely extending down the elytron, but never for more than 

 one-fourth its length. The <J is smaller than the ? , and has the abdomen much more dis- 

 tinctly punctured. Antennae with joints 9-10 shorter, triangulate, 11 rather small, acutely 

 pointed at apex. 



Length 10 to 12 lines. 



Yangihissar. 



Bub-Family SLAPTINJE. 



BLAPS STOLICZKANA. 



Approaching B. mortisaga, Linn., in habit. Elongate, depressed, acuminate behind, 

 black, underside shining black, antennse and palpi pitchy brown ; labrum rufescent, coarsely 

 punctured : head more or less coarsely (never densely) punctured, the base densely and finely 

 muricate, becoming granulous : epistoma trapeziform, widely and feebly emarginate in front : 

 prothorax slightly transverse, sides rounded anteriorly, gradually (sometimes feebly sinuately) 

 contracted posteriorly ; base closely applied to the elytra, feebly sinuate and wider than the 

 apex, which is broadly emarginate ; front angles rather broadly rounded ; hind angles obtuse, 

 slightly overlapping the shoulders, more or less coarsely punctured; the punctures more 

 crowded and more or less reticulately confluent at the sides, and with scattered very minute 

 punctures on the interspaces ; sides feebly guttered : elytra at base a little wider than base 

 of prothorax ; sides feebly rounded, attenuate behind, the apex gradually produced forming a 

 mucro, which, in the , extends beyond the abdomen by a length equal to the fourth ventral 

 segment; depressed, more or less gently declivous behind; more or less densely confusedly 

 covered with smallish, somewhat shining tubercles, which, except at the base, are flattened, 

 generally acute behind, and here and there run together, forming irregular, more or less 

 transverse, elevated rugosities : flanks of prothorax more or less strongly undulately strigulose, 

 and, as well as the prosternum, parapleurse, &c., sparsely minutely tuberculate : three first 

 abdominal segments longitudinally rugose at the sides, and transversely rugose on the middle. 



Length 8| to 10 lines. 



Pamir, between Sirikol and Panga. 



BLAPS INDICOLA. 



Habit of ? , B. mortisaga, Linn. Dull black ; underside and legs shining black ; antennae, 

 labrum, and palpi brownish black : head and prothorax very finely and not densely punc- 

 tured ; the latter sub-quadrate, feebly but regularly convex, widest before the middle, 

 strongly contracted in front, more gradually behind ; sides slightly sinuous before the hind 

 angles, very narrowly channelled ; front angles narrowly rounded, the hinder nearly forming 

 right angles, and reposing on the shoulders ; base feebly sinuously emarginate : elytra not 

 wider at base than base of prothorax, elongate, acuminate behind ; sides feebly expanded to 

 behind the middle, very gently declivous behind, the apex gradually produced, forming a 

 distinct but simple mucro, which is rather densely punctured ; uniformly minutely, but not 

 densely, granulose-punctate, a little stronger on the epipleurse and at the base, which is also 

 rugulose. 



Length 12 lines. 



Sind Valley. 



