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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
antennae are formed as m that species, but are rather longer and paler in colour. The punctua- 
tion of the elytra is fine and very scanty, and the fine scratches are less distinct than in T fime- 
tanm : the abdominal punctuation is rather denser than it is in the European species. In the 
male, the dorsal plate of the last segment ends in four short stout teeth as in T. fimetarius ■ 
the ventral plate of the same segment is also almost similar in the two species ; the ventral 
plate of the preceding segment has a broad notch in the middle; this is fringed, except in the 
middle, with very distinct pectinations, and in the middle, where the pectinations aJ absent, 
the margin has a rough or spongy appearance ; the termination of the notch on each side is 
not acuminate : the chief differences from T. fimetarius are the less produced and less acumi- 
nate terminations of the notch, and the greater development of the pectinations of its margin 
The domal and ventral plates in the female are formed as in T. fimetarius , except that the 
i-eetn of both plates are very much longer. 
09 Four found on the road across the Pamir, from Sirikol to Panga, between the 
22nd April and 7th May 1874. 
Creophilus (Munich Cat.). 
1 .— Staphylinus maxillosus, Lin. 
Kogyar, 1st June 1874. 
Philonthus (Munich Cat.). 
!•— Philonthus cyanelytrius, Kr, 
Murree. One individual. 
2 —Philonthus rotundicollis, Men. 
coloJte'"’ Yarkand ' A ^ Beries this 8 P ecies exhibits considerable variation in 
3.— Staphylinus sordidus, Gray. 
usuaL ^ indMdUal Witt ° Ut l0Cality W date ’ hM dytra barker coloured than 
4. — Philonthus stoliczka-:, n. sp. 
P. rubido Er. stmtlts el affinis : angmtulus, subparallelm, niger, elytris rttfis, antennis 
fmcu, bam cum pedsbm leslacec, abdominis segment ferrugineo-marginatis ; tLaceZZ. 
tulOt mdrparallelo, sene dtscotdali pmctorvm 5, ct punctis Icderalibm sat nwmerom ■ elytris 
rufisbaa summo panic obscurwre, erebre, fere former pmotatis ; abdomine dense, aqjliter 
subtihterque punctato, opaco. a 
Long. 5 mm. 
lon^s broT thM long, sub-equal, tenth about as 
° as broad. Palpi yellow. Head sub-oblong, with rather numerous coarse punctures, which 
