38 Mr. A. White on sotne new Lamellicorn Beetles. 



VI. — Descriptions of two apparently new Species of Lamellicorn 

 Beetles. By Adam White, Assistant Zool. Dep. Brit. Mus. 



Anoplognathus [Calloodes) Gi^ayianus, White. 

 ^upra leete metallico-virescens, flavo circumdatus, subtus ferru- 



gineus metallico-tinctus. Long. lin. 12 — IS^. 



Hab. Australia (Sept.?). Mus. Brit. 



Domino Joanni E. Gray, Musei Britannici Zoologise custodi inde- 

 fesso, species hsec perpulchra dedicata est. 



In another work, figures of the trophi and a more detailed 

 description of this beautiful subgenus of Anoploffnathidce will be 

 given j it is allied to the typical genus, differing in the greater 

 breadth of the thorax, and in the elytra nearly covering the podex ; 

 the whole insect is flatter, more especially on 

 the sides, and has a more Dytisciform appear- 

 ance even than the genus Repsimus, MacLeay, 

 to which at first I thought it belonged. The 

 head is green and punctured, the shield yel- 

 lowish, the sides rounded and somewhat 

 straight in front, under side of head of a 

 bronzy ferruginous. Thorax narrower than 

 elytra, sides slightly rounded so as to be almost 

 continuous with the side line of elytra, pro- 

 jecting behind in the middle and notched over the scutellum, 

 lively glossy green, the sides broadly margined with yellow. 

 Elytra much depressed, especially on the sides and behind, having 

 a wide but shallow sinus on the side; surface punctured, the 

 punctures generally running in striae, some of the rows placed 

 in slightly grooved lines ; it is of a lively glossy green, the sides 

 broadly margined with yellow. Legs and under side ferruginous ; 

 base of abdominal segments green, as are the tips of the femora 

 and all the tarsi ; front edge of tibise of fore-legs without teeth, 

 hinder tibise moderate*. 



* Through an oversight of the engraver, the tarsi in the ahove figure are 

 most inaccurately represented. 



In the British Museum collection are two specimens of the Alicronyx chlo- 

 rophyllus, Boisd., Fauna de F0c6anie, ii. 188, Voy. Astrol. t. 6. f. 18. This 

 insect appears to me to connect the Areodidcs and Anoploynathidoe in Bur- 

 meister's recently published volume of the 'Handbuch' (iv.). No notice is 

 taken of this New Zealand form, which is perhaps regarded by the philosophic 

 professor of Halle as belonging to a different family; the generic name stands 

 in preference to Schonherr's. (See Gen. et Spec. Cure. vii. p. 313.) 



1 may here mention that the male of the Sisyphus Seneyalensis, Dej., of 

 which a female only is in the British iMuseum collection, has the long process 

 attached to the hind-legs, as in the Sisyphus Bowrinyii from China, described 

 in the last Number of the * Annals.' Mr. Waterhouse has a male in his col- 

 lection. Mr, Charles Bowring of Queen Square, Westminster, informed me 

 that his brother, John Charles Bowring, Esq., found the Sisyphus named after 

 him to be a very common insect in Hong Kong. 



