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Show 218 ON N E W CICINDELID/E A N D CARABIDEE. [Apr. 2, elongato, ante medium leviter rotundato-dilatato antice sensim angustato, subtilissime corrugato fere leevi; elytris sicut in C. tientei acute punctulato-striatis, striisque catenatis utrinque tribus el interstitiis tribus integris exterioribus, apice (eS 2) oblique sinuatim truncatis ; corpore subtus leevissimo. cS • Tibia anticee intus simplices ; tarsi articulis 4 subtus spongiosis. Long. 26-30 millim. Ichang. A good series of examples. PRISTODACTYLA AGONOTDES. Taphriae nivali (Panz.) haud dissimilis, sed thorace minore et angustiore. Fusco-nigra, nitida, thoracis margine laterali, palpis, antennis pedibusque rufescentibus; capite anguste ovato leevi; thoiace parvo anguste ovato sat convexo polito, postice magis quam antice angustato, angulis posticis fere rotundatis, foveis angustis; elytris anguste ovatis, apice haud sinuatis, convexis acute striatis, interstitiis parum convexis, 3° postice unipunctato; pedibus minus elongatis, tarsis 4 posterioribus articulis 1° et 2° extus versus dorsum oblique sulcatis, unguibus dimidio basali longe pectinatis. Prosternum lateribus tantum marginatum, apice leevi. Long. 7\ millim. Ichang. LEBIA PRATTIANA. L. fuscae (Morawitz) similis, sed multo major et valde differt thorace antice usque ad collum rotundato-angustato; L. xantho-phana3 (Bates) magis afiinis. Oblonga, postice paullo dilatata, fusco-nigra, polita; partibus oris, antennis pedibusque obscure rufo-testaceis, femoribus apice plus minusve fuscis ; capite rugoso et sparsim punctulato ; thorace transverso a medio usque ad collum rotundato-angustato, angulis anticis nullis, postice vix angustato, angulis posticis paullulum obtusis, lobo basali brevissimo, dorso transversim ruguloso, lateribus late explanatis et alte reflexis; elytris acute punctulato-striatis, interstitiis convexis, 3° bipunctato, apice flexuoso-truncatis, angulis externis breviter dentatis. Tarsi articulo 4" longe bilobato, unguibus 8° et 9" pectinatis. Venter versus apicem punctulato-pubescens. Long. 12 millim. This species connects the Asiatic group of Lebia, in which the thorax is wholly rounded anteriorly (without anterior angles) and the outer angle of the elytral truncature dentiform, with the numerous group iv. /3 of Chaudoir's Monograph of the Lebiides, in which the elytral interstices are similarly convex, but the outer angle of the truncature rounded &c. L. prattiana, in fact, resembles much a large L. caligata (Bates). LEBIA XANTHOPHANA. Lebia xanthophana, Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 382. M r . Pratt has sent a numerous series of this species from Ichang, |
