SCIENTIFIC RESULTS 
or 
THE SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
COLEOPTERA. 
GEODEPHAGA and LONGICORNIA. 
By H. W. BATES, E.E.S., E.L.S. 
Introductory Remarks. 
T HE Coleopterous insects of the two great tribes which form the subject of the present 
memoir were collected chiefly during the winter months. It is on this account, probably, 
that the collection contains so few species of Longicornia, which ought to be abundant in 
s umm er on flowers in the elevated valleys, as they are in Northern Europe, in Siberia, and in 
the Rocky Mountains. A similar remark may be made with regard to the Cicindelidce family 
of Geodephaga, I species only of which were collected, three being Indian, taken in the Jhelam 
Valley, and one north of the Himalaya, which proves to be a new species, allied to a species of 
Pala 3 arctic type found in the Altai. The Carabidce are more numerous, the species of this 
family wintering generally in the imago state and being found readily in their usual haunts 
in the autumnal and early spring months. They afford occasion, however, for only one general 
remark, namely, that all the species without exception from the region north of the 
Himalaya are of European types, eight out of the 63 species collected being identical with 
European species, and the remainder either new species of European genera, or species of similar 
type previously described from the neighbourhood of the Caspian, or from Western and Northern 
Asia. The few that were found at Murree, in the-Jhelam Valley, or in Ladak are either Indian 
and subtropical {e.g., Colpodes ovaliceps, Prislomachcerus chalcoceplialus, Ilijpolithus perlucens, 
&c.), or North Indian modifications of Pakearctic types {e.g., Carubus caschmirensis et stolicz- 
kanus , Hypsinephus ellipticus), or well-marked and distinct species of Palsearctic genera, e.g., 
Brady tus compactus, Acinopus striolatus , Earpalus japonicus, Anchomenus politmimus, 
Molops piligerus. 
GEODEPHAGA. 
1, — ClCINDELA STOLICZKANA. 
Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 713. 
C. Burmeisteri ( Fisch .) affinis, sed minor, tliorace breviori, etc. Nigra corpore subtus, 
pedibus , antennarumgue basi chalybeo-violaceis, elytris lunula humerali et apicali ( hac antice 
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