62 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



BLAPS PERLONGA. 



Elongate, slender, acuminate behind, black, obscure : head and prothorax finely and not 

 closely punctured ; the latter gently convex, but little (not half a millim.) wider than long ; 

 sides gently evenly rounded and very finely margined ; base but little wider than apex ; base 

 and apex truncated ; front angles rounded, the hinder forming right angles : elytra elongate, 

 widest behind the middle, attenuate behind, the apex produced, forming a distinct but not 

 elongate mucro, very gradually declivous behind, and with distinct trace of a short costa 

 within the apex ; finely, uniformly, and not closely muricate-punctate, and faintly transverse- 

 ly rugolose. 



Legs very long, slender. 



Length 10 lines. 



Yanktze to Chagra, Pankong Valley. 



BLAPS LADAKENSIS. 



Black, elytra a little shining ; oblong-ovate : head rather closely punctured : prothorax 

 decidedly broader at base than at apex, transverse ; sides well rounded anteriorly, slightly 

 sinuously contracted posteriorly; apex feebly emarginate, with the angles rounded ; base feeb- 

 ly sinuously truncate, with the angles somewhat obtuse ; but little convex ; rather finely and 

 not densely punctured : elytra somewhat depressed on the back, not wider at base than base 

 of prothorax ; sides gradually moderately rounded, somewhat rapidly declivous behind ; apex 

 a little produced, but not mucronate ; disc irregularly, finely, and faintly muricately punc- 

 tured, and intricately rugulose ; apex and epipleurae somewhat intricately covered with irre- 

 gular flattened tubercles, which are pointed behind: legs and antenna rather short and 

 robust. 



Length 7^ to 8y lines. 



Yanktze to Chagra, Pankong Valley. 



BLAPS KASHGABENSIS. 



Elongate, black, elytra more or less nitid : head and prothorax finely remotely punctured, 

 sometimes becoming obsoletely so on the latter : prothorax regularly convex ; sides well round- 

 ed anteriorly, very gradually (and but little) contracted posteriorly, finely margined ; base de- 

 cidedly wider than apex, very feebly sinuately truncated ; hind angles somewhat obtuse ; apex 

 feebly emarginate, the angles well rounded ; median line faintly impressed on the disc : 

 elytra more or less elongate-ovate, somewhat rapidly declivous behind ; apex produced and ter- 

 minating in a very distinct, pointed mucro, which, in the <J , extends beyond the abdomen by a 

 length nearly equal to the third ventral segment ; convex, a little depressed down the suture ; 

 very finely (sometimes almost obsoletely) seriate-punctate, the punctures simple, the intervals 

 also finely punctured, and more or less feebly irregularly convex. Legs rather elongate. 

 Hind margin of first ventral segment in the <? a little emarginate at each side, leaving in the 

 centre a more or less triangulate plate, and with a villose tuft of rufous hairs ; it is also more 

 or less (sometimes very strongly) coarsely transversely rugose (with traces of a callosity) in 



