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Show 340 MR. H. W. BATES ON FORMOSAN COLEOPTERA. [June 12, Formosan fauna as regards the Coleoptera. Of thirty-eight new species which I have to describe (excluding for the present the obscure groups as already mentioned), sixteen are closely allied to known Chinese specific forms, fourteen to species more widely distributed over Eastern Asia, two to Philippine Island forms, and six only are not very closely allied to any known species; these latter, however, are not strikingly peculiar, and have their nearest allies in Tropical Asian forms. The relations of the known species are not very different from those of the new ones. Thus, out of the sixty-nine known species which I have determined with the help of a few entomological friends who study special groups, no less than forty-seven are Chinese, twenty-six of wider distribution, or found in other parts of Tropical Asia, but not in China, and three Japanese or Japanese and Chinese. It must be borne in mind that we are at present very imperfectly acquainted with the insects of China ; and consequently the relations of the two faunas may be still more intimate. In the letter which accompanied the collection, Mr. Swinhoe mentioned a species of Damaster, a highly peculiar Japanese generic form, as contained in the boxes. I have not succeeded in finding this insect in the collection, and am afraid it is lost, as the boxes were opened in transit. The discovery of a Damaster in the island of Formosa would have been the most interesting fact to record, in a paper on the Coleoptera of the island. The friends who have assisted me in the determination of the new species are Major F. J. S. Parry in the Lucanidar, Mr. J. S. Baly in the Phytophaga, and Mr. Janson in the Elateridar. All these gentlemen kindly allowed me to examine the type specimens of described Chinese and Asiatic species in their collections. CICINDELID^E. ClCINDELA KALEEA. Gracilis, thorace angustato, subcylindrico, medio paulo latiore; capite thoraceque minutissime crebre punctatis, opacis, obscure cupreis; elytris nigris, opacis, leviter viridi-arneo tinctis, sparsim punctatis, macula parva humerali, tribus discoidalibus quarum duabus posterioribus interdum connexis, lineola marginali alte-raque apicali virguliformi albis; capite inter oculos modice depresso, multistrigoso ; labro testaceo ( 6 ), medio producto et sinuato-truncato, dente parvo acuto ; antennis modice elongatis; corpore subtus pedibusque elongatis, viridi-arneis. Long. 4\ lin., cS • A slender species, allied to the group to which C. argentata (Fab.) belongs, but of a more elongate form, with head more depressed between the eyes, and thorax more elongate and cylindrical. The colours are obscure, and the surface of the elytra very opake. The labrum (in the male) is transverse, produced in the middle, with the front edge of the produced part sinuate truncate, and having a small tooth in the middle of the truncature; but the lateral angles of the truncature are not dentiform. The elytra have a sutural spine ; their |