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Show 1889.] COLEOPTERA OF THE FAMILY TELEPHORIDn-E. 103 The general colour of this species is steel-blue, the legs being of the same colour as the body, with the tarsi duller and blacker. The head is large and very shining, without punctuation, excepting that the front edge of the clypeus is rugose; the mandibles are yellow externally at their bases, the palpi are black, the antennse have two joints at the base shining black, those following are dull, being very finely pubescent, these are fuscous above; all the joints are ochraceous beneath, the three before the apical one being almost entirely ochraceous, and the apical one being black at the tip. The thorax is rectangular, slightly transverse, yellow, smooth and shining, with two roundish black spots on the disk placed near together, but rarely united. In veryUarge females the front of the thorax is a very little wider than the base, and the head is then very large. The elytra are of a deep indigo-blue, dull, being very finely coriaceous, but a little shining at the base ; their sides are (when not shrivelled) parallel; the wings blackish. 18. TELEPHORUS NOBILIS, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 9.) Nigro-subviridis, nitidus; prothorace aurantiaco, maculis duabus nigris; antennis fuscis, basi subtus ochraceis, elytris viridibus apicem acuminatis ; abdomine flavo, utrinque nigro-maculato. Long. 18-20 millim. S $. Hab. North China (coll. Gorham) ; Fuchau (Leech). This species is allied to T. imperialis, but is amply distinct. The head is shining, but is minutely punctured, the mandibles and palpi yellow, but partly pitchy ; the antennse are paler than in T. imperialis, and the second joint is only smooth above, the apical joint is quite pale. The thorax in the Fuchau examples (two in number) is of a fine orange-yellow, in the N. China specimen paler yellow ; that of the female is wider and distinctly transverse; the two spots as in T. imperialis. The elytra are very wide at the base, with very prominent shoulders : at this part and across the base they are very shining and metallic, beyond the middle they are finely and closely rugulose but more shining than in T. imperialis. The scutellum is of the greenish-black colour of the metasternum. The legs are bluish black with black tarsi. The abdomen is yellow, the first six segments with a black spot on each side. There is a specimen in Mr. Leech's collection from Fuchau which is not only much smaller (about 15 millim.), but also differs in having a single discoidal patch on the thorax, and one in m y own collection from North China has a subdivided discoidal patch and has blue elytra. These specimens bear therefore somewhat the same relation to T. nobilis that T. regalis does to T. imperialis and may possibly be distinct. 19. TELEPHORUS REGALIS, sp. nov. Nigro-ceeruleus, nitidus; prothorace flavo, subquadrato, disco nigro antennis subtus et ad apices ochraceis; abdomine nigro, opaco, luteo-limbato ; elytris cceruleis. Long. 18-22 millim. <$ $. Hab. China, Kiukiang (Pratt). fi* |