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Show 380 MR. H. W . BATES O N [June 19, M^CHOTYPA FULIGINOSA, Kolbe, Archiv f. Naturgesch. 1886, p. 221, t. xi. f. 38. A northern representative of a tropical genus common to the Indian and African regions. It is possibly the Tylophorus wulffussii of Blessig (Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. ix. p. 245, t. vii. f. 3), but the description does not fit in essential points. AGAPANTHIA AMURENSIS, Kraatz, Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1876, p. 115. Found also on the Amur. SAPERDA GEBLERI, Falderm. Me'm. Acad. Petrop. ii. (1835) p. 434, t. 5. f. 6. Northern China and Korea. OBEREA VITTATA, Blessig, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. ix. p. 255. Amur valley and Eastern Manchuria, according to Blessig. Mr. Leech met with male examples only at Gensan. OBEREA MARGINELLA, Bates, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xii. (1873) p. 390. Found also in Japan. 3. O n some new Species of Coleoptera from Kiu-Kiang, China. By H. W . BATES, F.R.S. [Received June 9, 1888.] The following are descriptions of the new species of Cicindelidae and Carabidae contained in the first arrivals from Mr. Leech's collector (Mr. Pratt), who is now exploring, entomologically, the valley of the Yang-tsze-Kiang. CICINDELA LOBIPENNIS. C. ovipenni (Bates) affinis : differt, inter alia, elylrorum humeris latius rotundatis, apice utrinque lobato-productis. Fusco-cuprea, opaca, labro virgulaque transversa elytrorum discoidali flavis, labro medio quadratim producto unidentato lateribus parum sinuato: capite thorace latiore inter oculos concavo longi-tudinaliter striato, occipite vermiculato-rugoso: thorace fere piano, quadrato, carina laterali verticaliter arcuata, toto vermiculato-strigoso : elytris elongato-ovatis, lateribus acute carinatis, epipleuris latis intus obliquatis paullo ante apicem terminatis ibique margine subito depresso, apice ipso producto, quasi lobato: palpis antennisque basi viridi-ceneis. Prothoracis episterna undique undulato-rugosu. Corpus subtus obscure viridi- |