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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
hind, minutely and not closely granulose-punctate, with distinct indications of strise, intervals 
very faintly rugulose, and run over with very delicate sub -reticulate lines ; very faintly hispid ; 
humeral angle very prominent, dentiform : epipleural fold finely sparsely granulous ; under- 
side and legs of a lighter brown : abdomen closely, finely, sub-muricately corrugated, and 
thinly clothed with a long yellowish pubescence; the last joint in the $ with a depression 
at the middle of its upper margin. 
Length 4J to 4| lines. 
No locality given. 
Myatis quadraticollis. 
Brown, of a much lighter shade than the preceding : head somewhat strongly punctured, 
more distinctly foveolated between the eyes : prothorax distinctly transverse, dull-reddish 
castaneous, clouded with dark brown, less evenly convex, irregularly foveolately depressed at 
each side near the border, sides more contracted posteriorly, the hind angles not produced nor 
outwardly directed ; base not distinctly sinuate at each side ; the punctuation distinctly 
coarser at the sides : punctuation of elytra a little less clean and less distinct ; distinctly his- 
pid at sides and apex, this very fine, short, and of a golden-yellow colour ; humeral angle 
prominent, hut not dentiform : underside and legs of a paler reddish brown. 
Length 4 J lines. 
Between Leh and Yarkand. 
Myatis variabilis. 
Varying from light reddish to very deep dark brown : head less distinctly foveolated be- 
tween the eyes than in the preceding : prothorax distinctly less transverse, and more uni- 
formly brown, the punctuation stronger, the median line nearly always distinct and quite 
smooth, more regularly and evenly convex, more rounded at the sides ; the hind angles are 
rectangular, or are a little outwardly produced : the elytra are more parallel ; the humeral 
angle is more or less distinct, but never prominent, the punctuation, &c., is a little closer and 
stronger ; they are also more distinctly and uniformly hispid : the underside and legs vary 
from very dark to pale-reddish brown. 
Length 3^ to 4^ lines. 
Between Yangihissar and Sirikol, and Sirikol and Sanju. 
These three species are very close to each other, and I strongly suspect they really con- 
stitute but one intensely variable species. 
Sub-Family — OP A TRINJE . 
Group - OPATRIDES . 
Cpatrum kashgarense. 
This species has been submitted to M. Miedel, who returns it as a new species belonging 
to the rusticum ( Oliv .) group. 
Oblong, brown, little nitid : head broadly and sinuately rounded in front : epistoma 
short, a little convex on the middle, notched, but not sharply angularly, in the middle of the 
