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8 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Smaller and narrower than R. melaneus ; head also much smaller or narrower. In form it 
approaches the European R. tenebrosus (Dej.), hut the thorax is different in shape, the 
sides being more arcuated and contracted gradually behind to the base which they join at an 
obtuse angle. The colour is the same as in R. melaneus, except that the antennse and palpi 
are reddish-tawny ; but this is liable to variation. The elytral striae are sharply impressed, 
and become deeper at the apex. The terminal spur of the anterior tibiae is moderately long, 
with the basal half dilated but not dentate. 
Rah. — Murree. 
27. — Harpaltjs masoreoides. 
Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 715. 
Parvus , niger subsericeus, Icbvis, partibus oris antennisque flavo-testaceis, pedibus magis 
rufescentibus : thorace transverso, elytris vix angustiori, antice gradatim paullulum angustato, 
angulis posticis rotundatis, leevi, foveola basali utrinque oblonga, murginibus rufescentibus ; 
elytris oblongis, apice late obtusis leniter sinuatis, supra striatis, striis minutissime punctulatis, 
inter stitiis vix convexis, marginibus rejlexis et epipleuris piceorufis : menti denie triangulari, 
acuto. 
Long. 2^ lin. 
The obtuse-angled thorax and apex of elytra, with the general form and smoothness, give 
this little species the appearance of a Masoreus. The head is small, obtuse, smooth, and 
polished ; the eyes very slightly prominent ; the frontal fovea is round and well-defined. The 
antennae are rather longer than the head and thorax taken together ; they are yellow, with 
more or less dusky on their pubescent joints. The spur of the anterior tibiae is obtusely 
lanceolate, not dilated ; the external angle of the apex of the tibiae has three short and very 
stout, obtuse spines. 
1 Sab. — Pamir Steppe, between Sirikol and Panga. 
28. — Harpaltjs liodes. 
Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 715. 
Ovatus, latus, modice convexus, niger , <? serici-nitens, ? serici-opacus, antennis palpisque 
piceo-rufis, illis nigromaculatis , tarsis piceo-rujis : capite lato , Icevigato, oculis minus promi- 
nulis ; thorace valde transverso, antice angustato, postice multo latiori, angulis posticis rectis, 
fere impunctato : elytris ovalis, apice paullulum sinuatis, supra sub liliter striatis, inter stitiis 
plants, tertio minute unipunctato : tibiis intermcdiis utroque sexu arcuatis. 
Long. 5 — 5l~ lin. 
Resembles much large species of the genus Amara. Thorax shorter in relation to the 
width than in R. bremcornis (Germ.), or any other species of the genus known to me. The 
head is broad and the forehead flattened and smooth. The thorax is narrower at the apex 
than at the base ; but the sides from the slightly dilated anterior part are slightly rounded, 
or nearly parallel to the hind angles, which latter are rectangular but blunt at their apex : 
the disc is obscurely wrinkled and there are a very few punctures in the shallow basal fovese ; 
otherwise the surface is impunctate. The antennae are short and far from reaching the base 
