66 SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 



less strongly emarginate at each side as the shoulder is more or less advanced, which, in some 

 examples, is as strongly so as in Diesia Jcarelini, Fisch. ; usually with an angulate depression 

 behind the scutellum; variously granulose, each granule bearing a setiform hair, which is 

 longer or shorter, black or fuscous brown ; these granules are minute on the disc, larger 

 (almost tuberculiform) at the sides, more or less distinctly seriately arranged down the elytra, 

 moderately intervalled both longitudinally and transversely ; at two-thirds the width of the 

 elytron, from the suture, is placed a more or less distinct row of rather larger and more closely- 

 placed granules, with sometimes indications of two others, one between it and the suture, the 

 other between it and the margin ; the margin is closely, sub-serrately granulose, or tuberculose : 

 starting from the humeral angle a more or less flexuous elevated line obliquely traverses the 

 epipleura ; this line is always granulose at the base, and sometimes more or less minutely inter- 

 ruptedly so along its entire length ; above this line the epipleura is sparsely granulose, the 

 granules somewhat large at the base and apex, minute and more remote between ; the part of 

 the epipleura below the line is more or less smooth, except at the apex, where are a few small 

 granules. Underside and legs moderately, closely, and uniformly (a little largest on the femora) 

 granulose, and clothed with a fine cinereous pubescence : the four hind tibiae are hispid, and 

 outwardly fringed with long fuscous hairs ; the front tibiae are strongly triangular, the outer 

 apical angle dentiform, the outer edge finely numerously spinose or dentate 1 ; tibial spurs long 

 and powerful, the inner one considerably longer than the outer : the four hind tarsi are fringed 

 with long fuscous (sometimes becoming a little rufescent) hairs at the sides, and with a tuft of 

 bright fulvous hairs at their tips beneath: antenna black, clothed with short hairs, the 

 last joints ferruginous and naked, except for a few long setse arising from near their base ; 

 last joint short, free, acuminate at apex : prosternal process horizontal, feebly convex, granu- 

 lose, more or less prominent and rounded behind. 



Length 7 to 9^ lines ; width of elytra across the middle, 3^ to 4^ lines. 



Kashgar to Kogyar. 



A variable species, and showing affinities with the genus Diesia. 



TEIGONOSCBLIS LACERTA. 



Ovoid, black : head large, strongly transverse, a little tomentose, 2 feebly remotely punc- 

 tured, granulose behind : epistoma broadly emarginate in front, angles distinct : labrum black, 

 middle of front emarginate, angles rounded, distinctly punctured : prothorax rather strongly 

 transverse, quadrate, depressed on the disc, and rather broadly so down the median line, apex 

 very faintly sinuate, angles somewhat prominent and acute ; sides moderately rounded ante- 

 riorly, sinuately contracted behind, base not wider than apex, sinuate, moderately so at the 

 middle ; hind angles slightly outwardly directed ; irregularly covered (sparsely on the disc) 

 with rather large, round or oval, flattened tubercles, these largest on the disc, smaller and closer 

 at the sides, the interspaces having a few scattered minute pointed tubercles : scutellum triangu- 

 lar, sub-petiolate, placed on the mesonotum : elytra oval, regularly convex, gently declivous 

 behind, apex a little produced and (conjointly) rounded: on each elytron five irregular 



1 It is really tubercled with spines arising from their summit ; and when these spines get rubbed or broken off the edge appear* 

 to he dentate. 



J Most probably, in fresh examples che entire surface is covered with a dull yellowish tomentum. 



