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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
This small species has the general appearance of a Bradycellus. The thorax at first 
sight appears quadrate, hut the sides are gently arcuated and just before the hind angle 
very slightly incurved, so as to make the hind angles rectangular; but there is some little 
individual variation in this respect. The frontal fovea; are linear and cross the suture to the 
epistome which they invade for a short distance; their outer edge (towards the eye) is 
deepest, and the line is there so sharply incised that their border is vertical, in some lights 
appearing cariniform. 
Hab . — No locality. Taken in the latter part of the journey; on the Pamir or near 
Yarkand. 
49. — Amathitis badiola. 
Bates, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1878, p. 717. 
A. rufescenti (Dej.) proxime affinis, at angustior, corporeque infra nigro. Oblonga, 
depressa, subtus nigra, supra capite thoraceque rufo-castaneis ( illo obscuriori) elytris sub- 
fusco-badiis, interdum aeneo-nitidis, striis obscurioribus : capite minus elongato, oculis multo 
minus quam in A. rufescenti prominulis : tliorace elytris angustiori, ante medium modice 
rotundato-dilatato, prope basin angustato, ibique lateribus obliquis, angulisque posticis vix 
rectangulis ( sed apice acutis ) ; basi toto discrete punctato, foveis modice impressis, carinaque 
vix elevata : elytris punclulato-striatis, interstitiis planis ; corpore subtus nigro-nitido ; 
partibns oris, antennis, pedibusque fulvo-testaceis. Menti dente prominulo, triangulari. $ 
tibiis posticis intus parce breviter pubescent ibus. 
Long. 4 lin. 
Nearly allied to A. rufescens, hut abundantly distinct. Its smaller head, much less 
prominent eyes, and relatively smaller thorax, distinguish it at once, independently of the 
light brown colour of the elytra. The distinct equilateral triangular tooth of the mentum 
distinguishes it from A. subplanata of Putzeys, 
Hab . — One of Stoliczka’s latest captures. The majority of the specimens hear no 
locality ; but one example clearer in the colour of the elytra is ticketed as from the neigh- 
bourhood of Sanju. 
50. — Amathitis kuenbtjnensis. 
Bates, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 7*17. 
Valde elonqatus, modice convexus, pallide ferrugineus, antennis pedibusque gracilibus, 
illarum articulo tertio c ceteris multo longiori : tliorace elytris multo angustiori, late cordato, 
lateribus antice fortiter arcuatis, postice sinuatim angustato, angulis posticis acutis ; supra 
impunctato, foveis basalibus latis, vagis, carinaque prope angulum indistincte elevata : elytris 
elong ato-onati s , apice panto sinuatis, striis Icevibus modice impressis. 
Long. 5 lin. ? . 
A species remarkable for its very slender antennse and long legs, apparently allied to 
A. longipennis (Chaudoir) and allies from the Altai, none of which I have seen. The mentum 
is scarcely toothed in the middle of its emargination, and the horny ligula is very broad and 
truncated at the apex. The anterior tibiae are much dilated and compressed towards the 
