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SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 
Blaps perlonga. 
Elongate, slender, acuminate behind, black, obscure : head and prothorax finely and not 
closely punctured ; the latter gently convex, but little (not half a millim.) wider than long ; 
sides gently evenly rounded and very finely margined ; base but little wider than apex ; base 
and apex truncated ; front angles rounded, the hinder forming right angles : elytra elongate, 
widest behind the middle, attenuate behind, the apex produced, forming a distinct but not 
elongate mucro, very gradually declivous behind, and with distinct trace of a short costa 
within the apex ; finely, uniformly, and not closely muricate-punetate, and faintly transverse- 
ly rugolose. 
Legs very long, slender. 
Length 10 lines. 
Yanktze to Chagra, Pankong Valley. 
Blaps ladakexsis. 
Black, elytra a little shining ; oblong-ovate : head rather closely punctured : prothorax 
decidedly broader at base than at apex, transverse ; sides well rounded anteriorly, slightly 
sinuously contracted posteriorly; apex feebly emarginate, with the angles rounded ; base feeb- 
ly sinuously truncate, with the angles somewhat obtuse ; but little convex ; rather finely and 
not densely punctured : elytra somewhat depressed on the back, not wider at base than base 
of prothorax ; sides gradually moderately rounded, somewhat rapidly declivous behind ; apex 
a little produced, but not mucronate ; disc irregularly, finely, and faintly muricately punc- 
tured, and intricately rugulose ; apex and epipleurse somewhat intricately covered with irre- 
gular flattened tubercles, which are pointed behind: legs and antennae rather short and 
robust. 
Length 7| to 8J lines. 
Yanktze to Chagra, Pankong Valley. 
Blaps kashgarensis. 
Elongate, black, elytra more or less nitid : head and prothorax finely remotely punctured, 
sometimes becoming obsoletely so on the latter : prothorax regularly convex ; sides well round- 
ed anteriorly, very gradually (and but little) contracted posteriorly, finely margined ; base de- 
cidedly wider than apex, very feebly sinuately truncated ; hind angles somewhat obtuse ; apex 
feebly emarginate, the angles well rounded ; median line faintly impressed on the disc : 
elytra more or less elongate-ovate, somewhat rapidly declivous behind ; apex produced and ter- 
minating in a very distinct, pointed mucro, which, in the <? , extends beyond the abdomen by a 
length nearly equal to the third ventral segment ; convex, a little depressed down the suture ; 
very finely (sometimes almost obsoletely) seriate-punctate, the punctures simple, the intervals 
also finely punctured, and more or less feebly irregularly convex. Legs rather elongate. 
Hind margin of first ventral segment in the $ a little emarginate at each side, leaving in the 
centre a more or less triangulate plate, and with a villose tuft of rufous hairs ; it is also more 
or less (sometimes very strongly) coarsely transversely rugose (with traces of a callosity) in 
