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Show 1889.] COLEOPTERA OF THE FAMILY TELEPHORIDiE. 97 Hab. India, Kullu {Mus. Calcutta), Koa Deyring; Assam. Head broad and flat, very smooth and even, minutely punctured, entirely yellow, apices of the mandibles pitchy ; antennse more than half as long as the body, thin, and simple, pale luteous, with the last four joints black. Thorax square, glabrous, yellow, without a trace of a central channel, the front and sides not reflexed, the base finely margined. Scutellum and the entire body beneath yellow; elytra brilliant steel-blue, closely and very finely punctured at the shoulders, this sculpture gradually terminating in the fine wrinkles which cover the surface. The elytra of this species (like those of T. nepalensis, Gray) seem of a very delicate texture and easily become shrivelled. Legs yellow with black tarsi. This insect is narrower than T. nepalensis and has the tibise yellow. 2. TELEPHORUS KHASIANUS, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. I.) Flavus; capitis basi et macula duplicifrontali nigro-subviridibus, prothorace disco nigro ; elytris viridibus creberrime granulatis, apicibus tenuiter flavis. Long. 15-16 millim. § . Hab. India, Khasia Hills, 2000 feet elevation (Major Godwin- Austen); Shillong. Head finely punctured and wrinkled, clypeus yellow, roughened and irregular, behind the insertion of the antennse greenish and not very shining, antennse entirely yellow. Thorax wider than long, yellow excepting the disk, which is broadly black with a greenish reflexion, sides and base reflexed. Legs yellow, front coxse a little infuscate in front. Elytra rather dull, but beautiful green, owing to the fine granulations, narrowed towards their tips, which are yellow. Body beneath entirely yellow. Allied to the Japanese T. viridipennis, Kiesen. Two specimens in m y own collection ; several examples in the Museum of Calcutta. 3. TELEPHORUS VERSICOLOR, sp. nov. Luteus, tibiarum apicibus tar sis que fuscis; elytris violaceo-ceeruleis, tertia parte apicali luteis, grosse cribrato-punctatis, basi apiceque leevigatis. Long. 12 millim. Hab. India, Khasia Hills, 3000 feet elevation. Head and thorax luteous yellow; mouth, palpi, and two basal joints of the antennse (the rest being lost) of the same colour, tips of the mandibles infuscate. The thorax is nearly square and its margins gently reflexed, both it and the head are impunctate. Elytra steel-blue at the base, passing into violet, the base is glabrous beyond the shoulders, as far as the apical yellow portion coarsely and cellularly punctate ; a few obsolete cells extend on the yellow apical part, which is more than a third of their length. Scutellum yellow, but metallic blue at the base. Legs and underside yellow, apices of the tibiae and the tarsi fuscous. |