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Show 104 REV. H. s. G O R H A M O N N E W [Mar. 5, This species is very closely allied to T. imperialis, and indeed at first sight only differs from it in having the disk of the thorax with a black patch of irregular shape, indented in front and at each of its hinder angles. It will, however, be found, I believe, to be distinct; it is rather smaller and narrower, and upon dissection of the male the genitalia are found to be dark in colour, and the lateral styles (sagittse) more widely separated, wider and more hamate. These are differences which are recondite, and do not properly come within the scope of the present paper. About half a dozen specimens of this insect were collected by Mr. Pratt. 20. TELEPHORUS LEECHIANUS, sp. nov. Flavus; capite supra (fronte excepta) nigro-cceruleo ; prothoracis disco, femorum apicibus geniculisque nigris; elytris viridibus, basi micantibus ; scutello nigro. Long. 17-18 millim. 3 $. Hab. Kiukiang (Pratt). Head above behind the insertion of the antennse blue-black, smooth, with only minute punctures which are furnished with short hairs ; front of the head, antennse, and palpi yellow, tips of the mandibles pitchy. Thorax quadrate, yellow, with a nearly round, not very large, discoidal black patch. Legs and body beneath entirely yellow, excepting that about a third of the femora at the knees and the extreme base of the tibise are black. The elytra are bright green, finely granulate, very shining at their bases. Var. 1 Thorax with two almost united black spots ; elytra blue. Hab. " North China " (coll. Gorham). This is possibly identical with T. viridipennis, Kiesen., from Japan. 21. TELEPHORUS LEECHIANUS, var. ^ENEIPENNIS. Major, latior; elytris eeneis, abdomine fusco testaceo-marginato. Hab. Kiukiang (Pratt). This insect, of which I have only seen one specimen, only differs from T. leechianus in having the elytra brassy, less shining at the base, the head quite black at the base instead of being blue-black. 22. TELEPHORUS CCELESTIS, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 7.) Badius; femorum apicibus, tibiis (duabus posterioribus exceptis) tarsisque nigris; elgtris Icete cceruleis, nitidis. Long. 14-18 millim. J $ . Hab. Kiukiang (Pratt). Head entirely bright chestnut-yellow, only the tips of the mandibles pitchy, antennse yellow. Thorax square, that of the male a little narrower in front than at the base, entirely yellow. Scutellum, body, and legs yellow, with the exception of the tips of the femora, the tibise and tarsi of the anterior and intermediate pairs, and the tips of the tibise and tarsi of the posterior legs, which are black. Elytra bright azure-blue, finely rugulose, but shining throughout. |