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front margin, the angles being well rounded ; antennary orbits outwardly angulately produced 

 beyond the eyes ; finely granulose (the granules black), and thinly clothed with short scale- 

 like hairs of a golden-yellow color : prothorax gently convex, rather deeply curvedly emar- 

 ginate in front, front angles not produced, sub-acute ; sides a little reflexed, gently regularly 

 rounded ; base a little wider than apex, sinuate ; hind angles produced, acute, directed back- 

 wards ; the surface more distinctly and regularly granulose, &c., than the head : scutellum 

 semi- circular, finely granulose and pubescent : elytra a little wider at base than base of pro- 

 thorax ; oblong, slightly widest behind the middle ; shoulders distinct, very finely transversely 

 rugulose ; punctate-striate, the punctures being rather large ; intervals a little convex, very 

 finely and not at all densely granulose, each granule furnished with a short scale-like hair, as 

 in the prothorax, &c. : underside thinly clothed with a fine greyish-yellow pubescence : flanks 

 of prothorax rather strongly granulose, meso- and meta-sterna and their flanks more finely so : 

 abdomen finely granulose-punctate, and transversely rugulose : metasternum as long as the 

 first ventral segment : prostemum closely curved round the coxa? : anterior tibiae expanding 

 outwardly, finely muricately punctured and shortly setose : last joint of all the tarsi elongate : 

 antennae reddish, thickening outwardly, joint 3 nearly as long as 4-6 united, 8-10 trans- 

 verse and gradually broader, 11 large, ovoid. 



Length 4J lines. 

 Kashgar. 



OPATETJM OCHTHEBIOIDES, Eauvel. 



Dras, Kargil, and Leh. 



PENTHICUS (LOBODERTJS) GRACILIS. 



I have submitted this species to M. J. Miedel, of Liege, who for the past five years has 

 been engaged on a critical examination of the Opatrides : he returns it to me as a species 

 distinct from the rufescens of Mulsant, and has furnished me with the following differential 

 characters : 



Than rufescens larger : prothorax more contracted posteriorly, the sides consequently 

 are sub-angulated in the middle, front angles more pointed ; the punctuation, &c., different ; 

 in gracilis the prothorax is somewhat closely, uniformly, and finely punctured on a very 

 minutely granulose ground, and at each side the disc are some irregular foveate depressions : 

 in rufescens the middle of the prothorax is somewhat sparsely covered with fine, but well- 

 marked, punctures on a smooth ground, the punctuation on the sides being stronger and 

 closer : the elytra in gracilis are more gradually (longuement) attenuated behind, but not 

 more pointed at the apex ; very faintly sulcated, the intervals somewhat sparingly covered 

 with very minute granules and showing a line of small shallow punctures ; there is also 

 a line of very minute punctures down by the suture : in rufescens the elytra are visibly 

 although very finely, punctate-striate, the intervals being finely, transversely, unequally ru- 

 gulose : the abdominal segments in gracilis are somewhat thinly covered with very small 

 granules, arranged in almost transverse lines ; whilst in rufescens they are well punctured : 

 the legs and antennae are similar in both species, except that joints 3 to 7 of the latter are 

 more elongate in gracilis. 



Length of gracilis, 4^ lines. 

 Length of rufescens 2f to 3f lines. 

 Kogyar, 



