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Show 106 REV. H. s. G O R H A M ON N E W [Mar. 5, strong lens it is very closely and very finely punctured. The thorax is longer than wide, very shining ; the disk is finely but deeply channelled behind, the channel ending in a wide undefined depression. The elytra are rough, each with two nervures rather distinct, their bases (as usual in this section) a little shining. Specimens of this insect were given me many years ago by Mr. Lewis, by whom they were captured at Fuchau ; it reminds one of the European T. lividus. 26. TELEPHORUS (ANCISTRONYCHA) BARTONI, sp. nov. Sordide ochraceus, parum nitidus ; capitis puncto, prothoracis disco utrinque, macula lineari obliqua, antennis, palpis, femoribus externe, tibiis tarsisque nigris. Long. 15-16 millim. $. Hab. North China (coll. Gorham), Kiukiang (Pratt). This is a more robustly built and wider species than T. orientalis. The head and thorax are more pubescent and rougher, though distinct punctures hardly exist, except on the clypeus. The thorax is fully as wide as long (in large females perhaps a little wider), the middle of the disk with a short but deep channel, on each side of which it is widely tumid, the tumid part obliquely marked with bluish black, the mark reaching close to the reflexed margin. Scutellum yellow, but surrounded when exposed by darker markings ; elytra ochraceous, dull and more granulosely rough near their apices. Legs robust and pubescent, black, but the underside of the femora, the coxse and trochanters, and occasionally the tips of the tibise are yellow. The abdomen is of a more sordid ochraceous colour with the dorsal surface black, but the apical ventral segment is clearer yellow. The antennse are black, with the underside of the two basal joints yellow. Two or three specimens of this insect were sent me by Mr. S. Barton and are labelled " N. China; " about a dozen examples were collected by Mr. A. E. Pratt at Kiukiang. 27. TELEPHORUS SINENSIS, sp. nov. Plumbeo-niger ; capitis fronte, prothorace (margine antica late et macula discoidali haud bene discreta exceptis), femoribus basi, coxis, trochanteribus et corpore subtus flavis. Long. 15 millim. c$ $ . Hab. Fuchau (G. Lewis). Head fuscous black, with the front and gular parts yellow, tips of the mandible and palpi black; antennas black, only the basal joint yellowish at its base, almost as long as the body in both sexes ; eyes very prominent, almost as in Podabrus. Thorax nearly square, in the male a very little longer than wide, margins very little reflexed ; the disk rather strongly tumid on each side of the central channel, slightly pubescent; yellow, with the front margin rounded and a little raised, black, this colour following the form of the inserted head, and with a very undefined central spot. Elytra dull fuscous black, opaque. Legs fuscous black, the base of the thighs, coxas, |
