78 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



Sub-Family CA NTH A RIN&. 

 QronvMYLABRIDES. 



MYLABRIS SID^E, Fab., Marseul. 

 Sind Valley. Murree. 



MYLABBIS MACILENTA, Marseul. 

 Murree. 



Group CANTHAB1DES. 



CANTHARIS ANTENNALIS. 

 Sind Valley. 



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EriCATJTA HAAGI. 



s . Head dull red, with a large, smooth, blood-red callosity at the base of each antenna ; 

 strongly and closely punctured, a short, fine, elevated line running down the middle of the 

 crown ; scantily clothed with fine black hairs at the sides and behind ; epistoma more or less 

 clouded with black, broadly and feebly sinuately truncated in front, less densely punctured 

 than the head ; labrum entirely black, sinuous in front, punctured like the epistoma : antennge, 

 excepting the two basal joints which are red above, black, strongly depressed, the joints 

 longitudinally excavated on their inner side ; joint 3 elongate, triangulate, 4-6 much shorter, 

 and becoming gradually narrower, 3-7 more or less strongly obliquely emarginated at apex, 

 with the inner angle produced, 8-10 of nearly equal length, but becoming gradually narrower, 

 truncated at apex, 11 longer and narrower than 10, cylindric and rounded at apex, the outer 

 joints densely clothed with cinereous pubescence : prothorax black, a little nitid, slightly longer 

 than wide, convex, a strong depression at the middle of the base ; sides a little rounded before 

 the middle, strongly narrowed anteriorly from before the middle, very gradually, and but little, 

 contracted posteriorly ; closely and deeply punctured, and pilose ; sides, apex, and median line 

 usually clothed with dull yellowish-white decumbent hairs : elytra dull black ; base consider- 

 ably wider than base of prothorax, divaricate nearly from the base, the apex obliquely rounded ; 

 very finely and densely granulose and transversely rugulose, clothed with short decumbent 

 black hairs ; the margins entirely bordered with a line of dull yellowish-white interwoven hairs, 

 and there is also, in fresh examples, a dorsal stripe of the same : underside and legs shining 

 black, and, except the last ventral segment, more or less thickly clothed with hairs of the same 

 character as those that border the elytra ; last ventral segment triangulately excised at apex : 

 anterior femora with the usual sericeous hairy spot at the emargination near the apex ; the front 

 tibiae are also emarginated at the middle within and excavated down the inner side, this 

 is filled in with the like silky-golden pubescence : tarsi simple, the first joint of the anterior 

 swollen on the inner side. 



$ . Smaller ; the callosities on the head feebler : antennae shorter, slightly attenuated out- 

 wardly i joint 3 elongate, 4-6 much shorter, 3-7 more or less slightly obliquely truncated at 

 apex, 8-10 equal, cylindric, 11 longer, rounded at tip : front legs as in the s but weaker : last 

 ventral segment more feebly excised at apex. 



Length s 9 to 10 lines, ? 7^ lines. 



Murree.* 



* Dr. Haag, who is at the present time engaged on a monograph of this group, has examined and pronounced this species to be unde- 

 scribed. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse of the British Museum also states that it is quite distinct from any species described by himself (in Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. London 1871, pp. 405-8), or by Hope. 



