^ff. Everest Expedition, 1921. 559 



mens from Kurscong:, Miingplui, and Darjeeling, and from 

 Yatong, Thil}et. 



Fani. Tenebrionidae. 



Jilaps tliihetana, sp. n. 



Stout, moderately convex above ; anfenntc short, not 

 reaching l)ase of thorax, joints 4-7 not twice as long as widu. 

 Tliorax transverse, convex, sides rounded, distinctly narrowed 

 to base, disc moderately densely and strongly punctate. 

 Elytra broad, moderately convex, sharply declivous beliind, 

 not produced at apex, lateral margin visible from above nearly 

 to middle; disc finely rugose, with numerous small back- 

 wardiy directed granules which are subseriately arranged, 

 uith numerous faintly indicated impressed stri;e. Legs not 

 very long, femora feebly clavate, anterior and intermediate 

 tibiiB slightly curved, the former not emarginate at base ; 

 first joint of posterior tarsi longer than the two following 

 together, asymmetrical at apex, i. e. the inner side longer 

 than the outer, the secoud and third joints elongate, tri- 

 angular, but not twice as long as wide. 



^ -with hair-pad between first and second abdominal 

 segments, the former with transverse folds immediatelv 

 behind coxae, but no tubercle and no caudal prolongation of 

 elytra; shape slightly more slender than that of ? . 



Length 16 mm. 



Two $ (^ and three ? ? collected by present expedition; 

 numerous exaniples of both sexes from Gyaugtse, 13,000 feet, 

 June 1904. 



The species would appear to fall into Abth. ii. gr. 3 of 

 Seidlitz's table, and to resemble B. ruguUpennis, Fairm., in the 

 absence of a caudal prolongation to the elytra, but from 

 this it differs in the shorter antennse and tarsi. In general 

 aspect it is, perhaps, most like B. nigosa, Gebl., but lias the 

 thorax more transverse, more convex, and more narrowed 

 behind, the elytra very much more finely, and differently 

 sculptured with about eighteen faint striaj more or less clearly 

 indicated. 



Blaps apicecostala^ s[). n. 



Elongate, narrow, subnitid, dorsum depressed; antennae 

 reaching base of thorax ( ? ) or extending beyond it ( (^ ), joints 

 4-7 twice as long as wide, 8-10 moniliform; thorax not very 

 strongly convex, a little wider than long, the disc finely 

 and densely but rather irregularly punctate; elytra depressed 

 on the l)ack, the lateral carina visible from above in its 



