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in a curve from the shoulders to the apex, which it narrowly attains, regularly but not closely 
covered with very minute granules, but without trace of hairs : flanks of prothorax rather 
closely undulately rugose and sparsely granulose : abdomen punctured and finely imbricately 
corrugated : third joint of antennae as long as 4-5 united : tibiae densely hispid, compressed, 
triangulate (the four anterior most strongly) ; the posterior straight. 
? . More convex and robust ; the elytral costae all sub-equal. 
Length & 5^ lines — $ 5| to 6 lines. 
Width of elytra across the middle $ 2£ to 2£ lines — ? 3 to 3J lines. 
Dras, Kargil, and Leh. 
Myatis, n. g. 
In this genus the head is again very short and transverse ; the epistoma is excessively 
short, very broadly and squarely truncated in front, almost on a level with the insertion of the 
antennae ; the impressed line, or suture, arcuate : prothorax gently convex, somewhat variable 
as to its form, &c. ; generally it is curvedly contracted in front, sub-parallel, or faintly sinuate, 
behind ; the apex very feebly emarginate ; the front angles obtuse ; base slightly sinuately 
truncate, the angles acute : elytra oblong, gently convex, sides very feebly rounded, narrowed, 
and moderately declivous, behind ; shoulders more or less oblique, the angle more or less 
acutely prominent, sometimes dentiform: epipleural fold moderately broad, gradually narrow- 
ed behind, not reaching the apex of elytra : the legs are slender ; the outer apical angle of 
the anterior tibia acutely dentiform ; the first joint of the anterior tarsi is relatively longer 
than in the preceding genera, and the three first joints of the intermediate tarsi are (although 
provided with a small brush beneath) scarcely at all dilated : the intermediate tibia in the $ 
are thickened outwardly, and, as well as the posterior tibia, are densely fringed within 
with silky golden-yellow hairs : the pro- and meso-sterna are not nearly so convex, or 
protuberant, as in the other genera of the group : the prosternum between the coxa is 
thickened at each side, and terminates behind in a slioi't reflexed mucro : the elytra are 
finely minutely hispid, most distinctly so at sides and at apex. 
Myatis humeralis. 
Oblong, pitchy brown, head and prothorax nitid : the former rather finely punctured, 
the punctuation a little closer, somewhat confluent, and pubescent at the sides and base ; 
slightly irregularly foveolated between the eyes : epistoma broadly and squarely truncated, 
and densely ciliate, in front ; the suture well marked : labrum rather closely punctured, 
strongly pilose : third joint of antennae nearly as long as 4-5 united : prothorax gently convex, 
very nearly as long as broad, finely evenly punctured, sides delicately margined, curvedly 
expanded in front to before the middle, thence very slightly incurved to the hind angles, 
which are prominent, sub-acute, and somewhat outwardly directed; apex truncated, front 
angles a little depressed and rounded ; base a little sinuate at each side, broadly and very 
gently rounded in the middle : scutellum strongly transverse, generally concealed by the short 
dense hairs which fringe the base of the prothorax : elytra broader at base than base of pro- 
thorax, oblong, sides feebly expanded to behind the middle, somewhat rapidly declivous be- 
