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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Head, prothorax, and elytra, minutely and sparsely punctulate : prothorax nearly as 
long as broad, sides well rounded anteriorly, thence rather strongly contracted to the base ; 
base slightly rounded, its margin broad and very convex; apex very feebly emarginate; 
all the angles depressed and obtuse : elytra oval, the apex rather strongly produced : epipleural 
fold uninterruptedly continued round the shoulders : inner side of the flanks of the prothorax, 
and the prosternum, rugosely punctured ; sides of metasternum, and of the two first abdominal 
segments, with a few coarse punctures; rest of the abdomen smooth. 
Length 4| lines. 
Kogyar. 
Sub-Family — AKISINJE . 
Cyphogenia plana. 
Narrow, elongate, flattened above; black, more or less obscure. Mentum notched (but 
not deeply) in middle of fore margin, disc more or less plane. Head-rhomboidal, more 
or less sparsely punctured; epistoma transversely convex, widely and sub-triangulately 
emarginate in front, completely exposing the labrum and its attachment, front angles 
more or less acute; front transversely, sometimes triangulately, depressed; supraorbital 
ridge more or less distinct ; cheeks (immediately behind the eyes) prominent and coarsely 
rugosely punctured. Prothorax quadrate, apex wider than base, front angles produced, 
sub-acute ; sides more or less feebly sinuous (sometimes a little angulate at the middle), 
and with a narrowish flattened margin; base squarely truncated, or feebly — sometimes 
sinuately — emarginate ; hind angles more or less produced (scarcely outwardly directed) and 
obtuse ; disc irregularly foveate, more or less finely and sparsely punctured, the punctuation 
stronger at the sides. Elytra elongate-oval, moderately produced and rounded at apex, 
faintly (sometimes ohsoletely) irregularly and minutely muricate punctate, the unpunctured 
intervals more or less faintly reticulately rugulose ; keeled from behind the shoulders to the 
apex ; this keel is not completely marginal, being placed a little within the outer edge, which 
is rounded, the epipleura being strongly indexed. Last three or four joints of antennai 
usually bright ferruginous, the last acutely pointed at apex. 
Length 7 to 9| lines. 
Dras, Kargil, Leh, and Pankong Valley. 
Cyphogenia humeualis. 
In habit approaching C. aurita, Pall. Black, obscure ; mentum very deeply notched in 
front, the disc very convex. Head and prothorax very finely and dispersedly punctured, the 
former with a longitudinal elevated line down the middle, and depressed at each side ; supra- 
orbital carina very distinct : epistoma widely emarginate in front in the $ , more deeply (and 
sub-angulately) in the § ; front angles broadly rounded. Prothorax transverse, disc convex, 
median line lightly impressed, and with a short transverse depression across the middle near 
the base, apex broadly emarginate, front angles not produced, hut somewhat acute ; base 
feebly emarginate, hind angles acute and outwardly directed ; sides well rounded anteriorly, 
rather broadly margined, a little reflexed, and finely transversely rugulose. Elytra depressed, 
gently declivous behind, the apex rather strongly produced and narrowly rounded ; widest 
behind the middle ; ohsoletely punctured, and showing some faint smooth reticulations ; shoul- 
