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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Sub- Family — EETEB OTARS IN 2E. 
Group— PHOBELIIDES. 
Lyprops indicts, Wiedm. 
Jhelam Valley. 
Sub-Family — EEL OPINJE. 
Group —ADELIIDES. 
L-fna lacordairei, Marseul. 
Sind Valley. 
Family — CISTELILJE. 
Sub-Family — CISTELINAE. 
Group— CISTELIDES. 
Allectla (dietopsis) costipennis. 
Elongate, narrow, cliocolate-brown, head and prothorax of a little deeper tint ; underside 
with a reddish tinge, and shining : head closely and finely punctured, pubescent ; a foveate 
depression between the eyes : epistoma long, convex, expanding anteriorly, apex squarely 
truncated ; labrum strongly transverse, entire and ciliate in front, with the angles rounded : 
last joint of maxillary palpi very broadly cultriform : antennae sub-filiform, joints 3-11 of 
nearly equal length, obconic, apex of 11 narrowly rounded : prothorax convex, transverse, 
narrowed in front, sides parallel, front angles broadly rounded, base lightly sinuate, the 
angles obtuse ; finely and uniformly punctured, lightly impressed down the median line, a 
foveate impression at each side the median line, broadly impressed at each side at the base : 
scutellum large, rounded behind, closely punctured, and lightly keeled down the centre : 
elytra at base broader than the base of prothorax ; shoulders well rounded ; strongly crenate- 
striate, the intervals convex, sparsely and very minutely punctulate, each puncture hearing a 
very fine, minute, pale decumbent hair : the sterna are all very finely and densely punctured 
and transversely rugulose, their flanks rather closely punctured, the punctures rounded and 
well marked : abdomen and legs very finely uniformly punctured and pubescent : tarsi with 
the third and fourth joints of the two front pairs lamellated, the penultimate joint only in 
the hind pair. 
Length 5 lines ; width of elytra across the middle 1| lines. 
Murree. 
Gronp — CTENIOPIDES. 
Hypocistela, n. g. 
Near Cteniopus, from which it differs in having the third joint of the antennae but little 
more than half the length of the fourth, and, as well as joints 3-6, obliquely truncated at 
apex : the palpi slender, the last joint, both of labial and maxillary, elongate, oval, and not 
