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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Sind Yalley. 
Murree. 
Sub-Family — CA NTS A RIN2E . 
Gvovcp—MYLAB RIDES. 
Mylabris sid.®, Fab., Marseul. 
Murree. 
Mylabris macilenta, Marseul. 
Group — CANTHAR1DES. 
Cantharis antennalis. 
Sind Yalley. 
Ericatita haagi. 
5 . Head dull red, with a large, smooth, blood-red callosity at the base of each antenna ; 
strongly and closely punctured, a short, fine, elevated line running down the middle of the 
crown ; scantily clothed with fine black hairs at the sides and behind ; epistoma more or less 
clouded with black, broadly and feebly sinuately truncated in front, less densely punctured 
than the head ; labrum entirely black, sinuous in front, punctured like the epistoma : antennae, 
excepting the two basal joints which are red above, black, strongly depressed, the joints 
longitudinally excavated on their inner side ; joint 8 elongate, triangulate, 4-6 much shorter, 
and becoming gradually narrower, 3-7 more or less strongly obliquely emarginated at apex, 
with the inner angle produced, 8-10 of nearly equal length, but becoming gradually narrower, 
truncated at apex, 11 longer and narrower than 10, cylindric and rounded at apex, the outer 
joints densely clothed with cinereous pubescence : prothorax black, a little nitid, slightly longer 
than wide, convex, a strong depression at the middle of the base ; sides a little rounded before 
the middle, strongly narrowed anteriorly from before the middle, very gradually, and but little, 
contracted posteriorly ; closely and deeply punctured, and pilose ; sides, apex, and median line 
usually clothed with dull yellowish- white decumbent hairs : elytra dull black ; base consider- 
ably wider than base of prothorax, divaricate nearly from the base, the apex obliquely rounded ■ 
very finely and densely granulose and transversely rugulose, clothed with short decumbent 
black hairs ; the margins entirely bordered with a line of dull yellowish- white interwoven hairs, 
and there is also, in fresh examples, a dorsal stripe of the same : underside and legs shining 
black, and, except the last ventral segment, more or less thickly clothed with hairs of the same 
character as those that border the elytra ; last ventral segment triangulately excised at apex : 
anterior femora with the usual sericeous hairy spot at the emargination near the apex ; the front 
tibiae are also emarginated at the middle within and excavated down the inner side, this 
is filled in with the like silky-golden pubescence : tarsi simple, the first joint of the anterior 
swollen on the inner side. 
? . Smaller ; the callosities on the head feebler : antennae shorter, slightly attenuated out- 
wardly , joint 3 elongate, 4-6 much shorter, 3-7 more or less slightly obliquely truncated at 
apex, 8-10 equal, cylindric, 11 longer, rounded at tip : front legs as in the s but weaker : last 
ventral segment more feebly excised at apex. 
Length $ 9 to 10 lines, ? 7| lines. 
Murree.* 
* Dr. Haag, who is at the present time engaged on a monograph of this group, has examined and pronounced this species to be unde- 
scribed. Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse of the British Museum also states that it is quite distinct from any species described bv himself (in Trans. 
But. 8oc. London 1871, pp. 405-8), or by Hope. 
