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Show 1888.] COLEOPTERA FROM KOREA. 369 of the elytra sharply bidentate. It agrees in colour with the var. pyroclopus, Kraatz, but seems to differ from it and from all other varieties of the species by the distinct but short and tine tooth or spine near the sutural ape.x of each elytron. COPTOLABRUS LEECHI. C. gehinii (Fairmaire) quoad formam similis, sed valde differt elytris utrinque triseriatim breviter nigro-tuberculatis tuberculis-que (fere sicut in C. schrenckii, Motsch.) inter se annulo tenui ovato concatenatis. Long. 37 millim. 2 • Gensan ; one female example. This magnificent species in general form resembles a Damaster, with the exception that the elytra are more ovate and convex, and quite simple at the apex. The colour of the upper surface is rich golden coppery, more brilliant (owing to the sparser sculpture) on the head and thorax than on the elytra, which latter are very closely rugulose-punctate, or more properly coarsely shagreened, the three rows of rather short oblong tubercles, and a row of much smaller ones between each pair and along the suture, being shining black. The head, with the neck, is long and narrow, the labrum strongly sinuated in the middle, the mandibles much elongated, and the surface somewhat faintly punctulate and rugulose. The thorax is narrow, at the apex not wider than the neck, moderately rounded in the middle, and constricted before the base, the hind angles being produced, but obtuse at their apices; the surface is faintly and irregularly transverse rugulose. The underside is violet-black and smooth ; the underside of the head and prothorax, sides of breast and abdomen, and the elytral epipleurae coppery violet. The legs, antennae, and palpi are black. SCARITES SULCATUS, Olivier, Ent. iii. 36, p. 7, t. i. f. 11; Chau-doir, Monogr. Scaritides (1880), p. 80. One example, taken at Gensan, of this well-known Indian species. CHL-ENIUS COSTIGER, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1856, iii. p. 258. Distributed throughout Eastern China, from north to south ; Japan and Formosa. CHL-ENIUS VIRGULIFER, Chaudoir, Monogr. des Chleniens, p. 61. Also found throughout Eastern China. CHL^ENIUS N.-EVIGER, Morawitz, Beitr. zur Kaferfaun. Ins. Jesso, p. 33, t. i. f. 16. North China and Japan. CHL_ENIUS HOSPES, Morawitz, I. c. p. 32, t. i. f. 15. North China and Japan. ANISODACTYLUS SIGNATUS, Illiger, Kaf. Preuss. i. 174. Found throughout Europe and Siberia and in Japan. It appears to be a common insect at Gensan. |