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in a curve from the shoulders to the apex, which it narrowly attains, regularly but not closely 

 covered with very minute granules, but without trace of hairs : flanks of prothorax rather 

 closely undulately rugose and sparsely granulose : abdomen punctured and finely imbricately 

 corrugated : third joint of antennae as long as 4-6 united : tibiae densely hispid, compressed, 

 triangulate (the four anterior most strongly) ; the posterior straight. 



? . More convex and robust ; the elytral costae all sub-equal. 



Length $ 5^ lines ? 5 to 6 lines. 



Width of elytra across the middle 2 to 2J lines ? 3 to 3J lines. 



Dras, Kargil, and Leh. 



MYATIS, n. g. 



In this genus the head is again very short and transverse ; the epistoma is excessively 

 short, very broadly and squarely truncated in front, almost on a level with the insertion of the 

 antennae ; the impressed line, or suture, arcuate : prothorax gently convex, somewhat variable 

 as to its form, &c. ; generally it is curvedly contracted in front, sub-parallel, or faintly sinuate, 

 behind ; the apex very feebly emarginate ; the front angles obtuse ; base slightly sinuately 

 truncate, the angles acute : elytra oblong, gently convex, sides very feebly rounded, narrowed, 

 and moderately declivous, behind ; shoulders more or less oblique, the angle more or less 

 acutely prominent, sometimes dentiform : epipleural fold moderately broad, gradually narrow- 

 ed behind, not reaching the apex of elytra : the legs are slender ; the outer apical angle of 

 the anterior tibiae acutely dentiform ; the first joint of the anterior tarsi is relatively longer 

 than in the preceding genera, and the three first joints of the intermediate tarsi are (although 

 provided with a small brush beneath) scarcely at all dilated : the intermediate tibiee in the $ 

 are thickened outwardly, and, as well as the posterior tibiae, are densely fringed within 

 with silky golden-yellow hairs : the pro- and meso-sterna are not nearly so convex, or 

 protuberant, as in the other genera of the group : the prosternum between the coxse is 

 thickened at each side, and terminates behind in a short reflexed mucro : the elytra are 

 finely minutely hispid, most distinctly so at sides and at apex. 



MYATIS HTIMERALIS. 



Oblong, pitchy brown, head and prothorax nitid : the former rather finely punctured, 

 the punctuation a little closer, somewhat confluent, and pubescent at the sides and base ; 

 slightly irregularly foveolated between the eyes : epistoma broadly and squarely truncated, 

 and densely ciliate, in front ; the suture well marked : labrum rather closely punctured, 

 strongly pilose : third joint of antennae nearly as long as 4-5 united : prothorax gently convex, 

 very nearly as long as broad, finely evenly punctured, sides delicately margined, curvedly 

 expanded in front to before the middle, thence very slightly incurved to the hind angles, 

 which are prominent, sub-acute, and somewhat outwardly directed; apex truncated, front 

 angles a little depressed and rounded ; base a little sinuate at each side, broadly and very 

 gently rounded in the middle : scutellum strongly transverse, generally concealed by the short 

 dense hairs which fringe the base of the prothorax : elytra broader at base than base of pro- 

 thorax, oblong, sides feebly expanded to behind the middle, somewhat rapidly declivous be- 



