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obtuse, tbe binder ones obtusely ungulate ; upper surface moderately convex, tbe lateral 
margin rather broadly reflexed, disc irregularly excavated ; finely but not very closely 
punctured, interspaces minutely granulose-strigose. Scutellum trigonate, shining black. 
■ Elytra broader than the thorax, oblong, moderately convex, faintly excavated below the 
basilar space, more strongly punctured than the thorax, the punctures pale fuscous. 
Sab . — Jhelam Valley. 
17. — Mimastra gracilis. 
Baly, Cist. Ent. ii, 1875 — 82, p. 378. 
Elongata, qttenuata , pallide flava, nitida, antennis ( basi exceptis) fuscis, oculis nigris, 
genubus tarsisque piceis ; thoraoe transverso , basi emarginato, disco irregulariter excavato, 
lateribus late marginatis, ante medium angulatis, elytris parallelis, tenuiter punctatis. 
Long. 3 lin. 
Head strongly exserted ; encarpac and clypeus thickened, the former bounded above by a 
transverse groove, trigonate, contiguous for their whole length ; antennae very slender, fili- 
form, nearly equal to the body in length, second joint about half the length of the basal one, 
nearly a third shorter than the third ; three basal joints pale flavous, the rest pale fuscous. 
Thorax transverse ; sides broadly margined, nearly parallel, distinctly angled just beyond the 
middle, thence obliquely converging to the apex ; disc broadly and irregularly excavated, 
impunctate. Scutellum trigonate. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, elongate ; disc 
very minutely punctured, very faintly wrinkled. Outer edge of knees, together with the 
tarsi, pale piceous. 
Sab. — Murree. 
18. — Agelastica orientalis. 
Baly, Cist. Ent. ii, 1875 — 82, p. 379. 
Elongato-ovato, convexa, metallico-ccerulea, nitida, antennis nigris ; tliorace elytrisque 
crebre punctatis, illo lateribus rotundatis. 
Long. 3^ — 4 lin. 
Encarpae and clypeus thickened, the former pyriform, contiguous, separated from the 
front by a deep transverse groove ; antennae filiform, half the length of the body, the second 
joint short, the third one-lialf longer than the second, more than half the length of the 
fourth. Thorax nearly three times as broad as long ; sides rounded, slightly converging in 
front ; the hinder angles rounded, the anterior ones obtuse ; disc closely punctured. Scutel- 
lum trigonate, shining, impunctate. Elytra rather broader than the thorax, oblong, closely 
punctured. 
Sab . — Neighbourhood of Sanju, apparently common. 
Closely allied to A. ccerulea, it may be known from that insect by the relative lengths 
of the second and third joints of the antennae. 
