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Show 108 REV. H. S. GORHAM ON N E W [Mar. 5, articulis duobus primis preetermissis, pectore et abdominis segmentis quinque ventralibus in medio fuscis. Long. 12-13 millim. 3 $ . Hab. China, Kiukiang (Pratt). The head in this species is broad and not much narrowed behind, the eyes are prominent, the front and gular part are yellow, the basal half and cheeks black. There is a deep fossa between the antennse, the latter are fuscous but yellowish beneath, and two joints at the base are entirely yellow. Thorax small, square, with au irregular impression in the centre of the disk. Scutellum blackish or fuscous, becoming yellowish at its apex. Elytra bronzy green or leaden, rather shining, subrugose. Legs yellow. Breast fuscous. Abdomen fuscous on the dorsal side, margined with the yellow colour of the underside, of which only the middle of each of the first five segments has an infuscate cloud. Several specimens of each sex. 31. TELEPHORUS? FLAVICORNIS, sp. nov. Flavus; capite et genis nigris, pectore abdomineque fuscis, elytris subviolaceis. Long. 9 millim. Hab. Fuchau, China. Front and gular part of the head, antennse, and palpi clear luteous yellow: the antennas three fourths of the length of the body, the basal joints from the second to the eighth compressed, and from the fourth to the eighth having their (inner ?) edge a little produced at the apex, the eighth itself having this part produced so as to form a small spur, the three terminal joints simple; all the joints, except the very short second, elongate. Head wide across the eyes, much narrowed behind, punctured obsoletely and uneven, the basal part black. Thorax yellow, once and a half as long as wide, uneven, the sides deflexed. Elytra dark violaceous, nearly black. Legs yellow, tarsi long, faintly fuscous at the tips ; claw-joint thin and long, claws simple. A single specimen of this curious insect taken by Mr. G. Lewis at Fuchau, and given to me. LYCOCERUS, genus novum. Corpus Lyciforme, supra breviter pubescens. Antennce ultra articulum secundum compressee, serratee, articulis sexto ad undecimum sensim altenuatis. Palpi sicut in Telephoro. Prothorax lateribus haud marginatis vel reflexis. Elytra mollia, obsolete costata, squamose pubescentia. Ungues simplices. This new genus is very difficult to characterize. The insects for which I propose the name are true Telephorids, but have very much the appearance of Lycidce, especially of the genus Calochromus. The head is exserted, but yet seems in close connection with the thorax. The latter is very different to that of any Telephorid known to me, the sides not being margined or expanded, narrowed from the base (in all the three species known to me), and clothed with a fine |
