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expanded outwardly: three middle joints of intermediate tarsi broader than long; hind 
angles rounded. 
Length 5 lines. 
Pamir from Sirikol to Panja. 
BlOllAMIX OVALIS. 
Oval, less elongate, and relatively broader than the preceding : head more closely, and slight- 
ly rugosely, punctured, not densely sub-muricately punctured, nor pubescent behind : prothorax 
more transverse, a little less convex ; sides more rounded, distinctly, and slightly sinuately, 
contracted behind, a little depressed at the margins, foveolate at each side the middle, the 
punctuation not so clean, the angles distinctly more obtuse : elytra more rounded at the sides, 
more convex, more abruptly narrowed, and more strongly declivous behind; punctuation 
much finer and little less regular, with sometimes faint indications of costae : epipleural fold 
less distinctly (sometimes ohsoletely) punctured; front tibise a little more compressed, not 
distinctly sinuate at outer edge : last ventral segment with a faint depression in the middle 
of its upper margin. 
Length 4J to 4| lines. 
Dras, Kargil, and Leh. 
Bioramix ptjncticeps. 
Very near the preceding : differs in having the epistoma distinctly squarely truncated in 
front more densely punctate and rugose : prothorax still more strongly transverse, front angles 
more obtuse, sides strongly rounded behind, effacing the hind angles : the elytra very faintly 
punctured, the shoulders still more strongly rounded, consequently the middle of the base 
of prothorax only impinges on the elytra : epipleural fold very finely rugulose, but not 
visibly punctate: anterior tibise distinctly more compressed, more triangulate, the outer 
apical angle a little produced: front and middle tarsi (especially the latter) distinctly 
narrower and more pilose. 
Length 4 to 4J lines. 
Dras, Kargil, and Leh. 
Bioramix asidioides. 
Very distinct from the three preceding species by its larger size, broader and more de- 
tvrpssed form, distinctly seriately punctate elytra, etc. 
F Oblong, oval, black, slightly nitid ; head sub-angulate m front, somewhat coarsely, hut 
not closely , punctured and a little rugose, more finely and closely so, and pubescent, behind : 
epistoma very short, but the sides are well distinguished from the antennary orbits, the 
angles being very distinct and nearly rectangular, the apex squarely truncated : third joint of 
antennae as long as 4-5 united : prothorax transverse, somewhat depressed, its base rather 
closely applied to the base of elytra, moderately punctured, the punctures each bearing a 
short decumbent hair ; apex arcuately emarginate, the angles sub-acute ; base considerably 
wider than apex, sinuate, the angle sub-acute and somewhat outwardly directed, although 
