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Show 1889.] COLEOPTERA OF THE FAMILY TELEPHORIDiE. Ill black, the sides a little contracted in front; the disk deeply sulcate, tumid behind the middle on each side ; the front margin and sides a little reflexed and often pitchy. Elytra distinctly costate, the humeral callus distinct and giving rise to one costa, between which and the suture are three costse, that which is next the callus being prolonged to near the apex. Their colour is a dull reddish brown, which is no doubt brighter in life, and is restored by wetting them. The body beneath is dull black, clothed with short greyish pubescence. The apical segment of the male appears only to differ from that of the female in being narrow, but cannot be well observed in dry specimens. This species has been known to m e since 1863, when Mr. G. Lewis collected five specimens at Fuchau. The toothing of the claws of the female suggests affinity with Ancistronycha. I cannot at present, for want of more and sufficiently fresh specimens, determine whether the same structure is found in L. serricornis and other species. If it should prove to be so, it would not warrant the placing of such abnormal insects in that genus. 37. TELEPHORUS? sp. nov. A single example of a Telephorus from Fuchau, collected by Mr. Leech. 38. HOMALISUS? sp. nov.? A single example from Kiukiang (Pratt) possibly belongs to this genus: this insect has a strongly fossulate thorax, and costate and deeply punctured elytra. 39. SILIS, sp. nov. ? Hab. Fuchau {Leech). Two examples of a small Silis (6 millim.) with black body and elytra and red thorax, the sides of which are doubly and deeply incised, and its disk deeply fossulate. Not in sufficiently good condition for study, the antennas being lost, &c. EXPLANATION OF PLATE X. Fig. 1. Telephorus Jchasianus, p. 97. 2. chalybeipennis, p. 96. 3. prattianus, p. 105. 4. purpureipennis, p. 107. 5. bieti, p. 101. 6. insularis, p. 101. 7. ccelestis, p. 104. 8. imperialis, p. 102. 9. nobilis, p. 103. 10. Lycocerus serricornis, p. 109. 11. caliginosus, p. HO.j 12. militaris, p. 110. |