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the middle, and longitudinally rugose at the sides ; the second and third segments being 
likewise rugose, hut never so strongly. 
The ? is relatively broader than the $ , the legs not quite so long, the punctuation a 
little more distinct, the elytral mucro shorter, the abdomen finely rugose-punctate, hind 
margin of the first segment entire. 
Length 9 to 13 lines. 
Kashgar, Yangihissar. 
PUOSODES TRISULCATA. 
S . Elongate, parallel, pitchy brown ; approaching castaneous on the prothorax, legs, and 
antennae. Head and prothorax finely, irregularly, and sparsely punctured, the punctuation a 
little stronger on the sides of the latter : prothorax gently convex, uneven at the sides, a well 
marked rounded fovea near the hind angle, and several faint irregular foveate depressions on 
the disc ; lateral margins faintly rugulose ; sides slightly rounded anteriorly, gradually and but 
little contracted posteriorly, widest before the middle ; base truncate, hind angles forming right 
angles ; apex very feebly emarginate, the angles depressed and narrowly rounded : elytra not 
wider at base than base of prothorax, elongate, sub-parallel, depressed on the back, gradually 
attenuated, and gently declivous, behind, margins reflexed at the apex ; on each elytron two 
dorsal, broad, nearly smooth, costae ; the suture is also thickened ; the lateral margin is likewise 
somewhat costiform ; the intervals, which are broader than the costae, form three shallow fur- 
rows, which are somewhat densely irregularly granulous; both furrows and costae become effaced 
at the base : the epipleurce are very broad, vertical, smooth and shining ; the fold is also smooth, 
broad at base (where it attains the humeral angle), it gradually, obliquely, and sinuously 
narrows to the apex, and has a slightly flexuous elevated line running down its centre : under- 
side pitchy nitid : abdomen feebly longitudinally rugose at the sides : prosternal process termin- 
ating behind in a small reflexed mucro: legs rather slender; femora finely muricately 
punctured ; tibiae more strongly and closely so, and shortly hispid ; hind tibiae feebly flexuous ; 
first joint of hind tarsi as long as the last. 
$ . Larger, more robust, less parallel, the punctuation, &c., stronger ; the sides of prothorax 
slightly sinuate before the hind angle : elytra more abruptly declivous behind : hind tarsi 
shorter* 
Length $ 8f, ? 10 lines ; width of elytra across the middle <? 2f, $ 4 lines. 
Eras, Kargil, and Leh. 
Prosodes vicina. 
Very close to the preceding, from which it differs by its broader form; the prothorax 
underside le-s &c., shining black; the apex of the prothorax distinctly emarginate; the 
sides more narrowed anteriorly, the angles more broadly rounded: the elytra a little more 
gradually declivous behind; the dorsal costa? more elevated, narrower, and, especially in the 
V punctured and rugose; the epipleurae are also distinctly rugulose: the antennae and legs 
are stouter ; the middle joints of the former sub-moniliform ; and the prosternal process is more 
feebly mucronate behind. ^ ? 
