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the middle, and longitudinally rugose at the sides ; the second and third segments being 

 likewise rugose, but never so strongly. 



The ? is relatively broader than the <? , the legs not quite so long, the punctuation a 

 little more distinct, the elytral mucro shorter, the abdomen finely rugose-punctate, hind 

 margin of the first segment entire. 



Length 9 to 13 lines. 



Kashgar, Yangihissar. 



PROSODES TRISTJXCATA. 



$ . Elongate, parallel, pitchy brown ; approaching castaneous on the prothorax, legs, and 

 antennae. Head and prothorax finely, irregularly, and sparsely punctured, the punctuation a 

 little stronger on the sides of the latter : prothorax gently convex, uneven at the sides, a well 

 marked rounded fovea near the hind angle, and several faint irregular foveate depressions on 

 the disc ; lateral margins faintly rugulose ; sides slightly rounded anteriorly, gradually and but 

 little contracted posteriorly, widest before the middle ; base truncate, hind angles forming right 

 angles ; apex very feebly emarginate, the angles depressed and narrowly rounded : elytra not 

 wider at base than base of prothorax, elongate, sub-parallel, depressed on the back, gradually 

 attenuated, and gently declivous, behind, margins reflexed at the apex ; on each elytron two 

 dorsal, broad, nearly smooth, costse ; the suture is also thickened ; the lateral margin is likewise 

 somewhat costiform ; the intervals, which are broader than the costse, form three shallow fur- 

 rows, which are somewhat densely irregularly granulous; both furrows and costae become effaced 

 at the base : the epipleura3 are very broad, vertical, smooth and shining ; the fold is also smooth, 

 broad at base (where it attains the humeral angle), it gradually, obliquely, and sinuously 

 narrows to the apex, and has a slightly flexuous elevated line running down its centre : under- 

 side pitchy nitid : abdomen feebly longitudinally rugose at the sides : prosternal process termin- 

 ating behind in a small reflexed mucro: legs rather slender; femora finely muricately 

 punctured ; tibiae more strongly and closely so, and shortly hispid ; hind tibiae feebly flexuous ; 

 first joint of hind tarsi as long as the last. 



9 . Larger, more robust, less parallel, the punctuation, &c., stronger ; the sides of prothorax 

 slightly sinuate before the hind angle : elytra more abruptly declivous behind : hind tarsi 

 shorter. 



Length $ 8^, ? 10 lines ; width of elytra across the middle <? 2f , ? 4 lines. 

 Dras, Kargil, and Leh. 



PROSODES VICINA. 



Very close to the preceding, from which it differs by its broader form ; the prothorax 

 underside, legs, &c., shining black; the apex of the prothorax distinctly emarginate; the 

 sides more narrowed anteriorly, the angles more broadly rounded : the elytra a little more 

 gradually declivous behind ; the dorsal costae more elevated, narrower, and, especially in the 

 $ , punctured and rugose ; the epipleurae are also distinctly rugulose : the antennae and legs 

 are stouter ; the middle joints of the former sub-moniliform ; and the prosternal process is more 

 feebly mucronate behind. 



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