new genera and species of Heteromera. 473 



irregularly finely inuric^te punctate and intricately rugulose; 

 apex and epipleura3 imbricately tuberculose, the tubercles 

 flattened and pointed behind: legs and antennae rather short 

 and robust. Length 7-^— 8|- hues. 



Tanktze to Chagra, Pankong Valley. 



Blaps Kashgarensis, n. sp. 



Elongate, black, elytra more or less nitid: head and prothorax 

 finely remotely punctured, sometimes obsoletely so on the latter: 

 prothorax regularly convex, sides -well roimded in front, but 

 little contracted behind ; base decidedly wider than apex, hind 

 angles obtuse, fr-ont angles well rorxnded; median line faintly 

 impressed: elytra more or less elongate-ovate, somewhat rapidly 

 declivous behind, apex terminating, in the ^ , in a distinct, 

 moderately elongate mucro ; convex, slightly depressed at the 

 suture ; very finely, sometimes almost obsoletely, seriate-punctate, 

 the punctures simple, intervals finely punctured, and more or 

 less feebly convex: legs rather long: first ventral segment in $ 

 emarginate at each side and with a villose tuft of rufous hairs, 

 more or less strongly transversely rugose, and with traces of a 

 callosity on the middle. Length ij-13 lines. 



Kashgar, Yangi Hissar. 



Prosodes trisulcata, n. sp. 



$ Elongate, parallel, pitchy-brown, prothorax, legs and 

 antennae approaching castaneous : head and prothorax finely 

 sparsely punctate, a little stronger on the sides of the latter: 

 prothorax gently convex, iineven at the sides, a fovea near the 

 hind angle, and several faint depressions on the disc: lateral 

 margins finely rugulose; sides slightly rounded anteriorly, but 

 little narrowed ^posteriorly, widest before the middle ; front 

 angles depressed and narrowly rounded, hind angles rectangular: 

 elytra not wider at base than base of prothorax, depressed on 

 the back, gradually attenuated and gently declivous behind, 

 margins reflexed at apex; trisulcate, the sulci broad and shallow 

 and somewhat densely irregularly granulous; intervals subcosti- 

 form, nearly smooth; both sulci and costal effaced at the base: 

 epipleuraj very broad, vertical, smooth, shining, the fold also 

 smooth and broad, obliquely and sinuously narrowing from 

 humeral angle to apex: underside piceous, nitid, abdomen feebly 

 wrinkled at the sides: legs rather slender, hind tibice feebly, 

 fiexuoiis. 



