76 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



Sub-Family HETEROTARSIN&. 

 QronpPHOBELIIDES. 



LYPROPS INDICUS, Wiedm. 

 Jhelam Valley. 



Sub-Family HEL OPIN&. 



QTOV.VADELIIDES. 

 L^NA LACORDAIKEI, Marseul. 



Sind Valley. 



Family CISTELIDM. 



Sub-Family CISTELIN&. 



QTOUVCISTELIDES. 

 ALLECULA (DIETOPSIS) COSTIPENNIS. 



Elongate, narrow, chocolate-brown, head and prothorax of a little deeper tint ; underside 

 with a reddish tinge, and shining : head closely and finely punctured, pubescent ; a foveate 

 depression between the eyes : epistoma long, convex, expanding anteriorly, apex squarely 

 truncated ; labrum strongly transverse, entire and ciliate in front, with the angles rounded.; 

 last joint of maxillary palpi very broadly cultriform : antenna? sub-filiform, joints 3-11 of 

 nearly equal length, obconic, apex of 11 narrowly rounded : prothorax convex, transverse, 

 narrowed in front, sides parallel, front angles broadly rounded, base lightly sinuate, the 

 angles obtuse ; finely and uniformly punctured, lightly impressed down the median line, a 

 foveate impression at each side the median line, broadly impressed at each side at the base : 

 scutellum large, rounded behind, closely punctured, and lightly keeled down the centre : 

 elytra at base broader than the base of prothorax ; shoulders well rounded ; strongly crenate- 

 striate, the intervals convex, sparsely and very minutely punctulate, each puncture bearing a 

 very fine, minute, pale decumbent hair : the sterna are all very finely and densely punctured 

 and transversely rugulose, their flanks rather closely punctured, the punctures rounded and 

 well marked : abdomen and legs very finely uniformly punctured and pubescent : tarsi with 

 the third and fourth joints of the two front pairs lamellated, the penultimate joint only in 

 the hind pair. 



Length 5 lines ; width of elytra across the middle 1| lines. 



Murree. 



Group CTENIOPIDES. 



HTPOCISTELA, n. g. 



Near Cteniopm, from which it differs in having the third joint of the antennae but little 

 more than half the length of the fourth, and, as well as joints 3-6, obliquely truncated at 

 apex : the palpi slender, the last joint, both of labial and maxillary, elongate, oval, and not 



