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with concolorous hairs ; thorax and elytra pale yellow, the former 

 with three, the latter each with two black spots. Head shining 

 black, front impressed with a deep ovate fovea; clypeus sur- 

 rounded by a bright yellow line. Thorax subcylindrical, slightly 

 constricted at the base and apex ; sides rounded, slightly pro- 

 duced behind into an indistinct process; surface shining, a 

 large subovate spot on either side, and a smaller one behind, 

 black. Scutellum shining black. Elytra broader than the 

 thorax ; sides parallel ; apex rounded, dehiscent at the suture ; 

 above convex, distinctly but not very closely punctured ; pale 

 shining yellow, sparingly covered with black adpressed hairs; 

 a spot on the shoulder and a large patch near the middle of 

 the disk, bifurcate behind, black. Beneath pale shining yellow ; 

 two spots on either side the thorax, the entire breast, a large 

 patch in the centre of the abdomen, together with the legs 

 (the apex of the hinder thighs alone excepted), shining black; 

 tibiae covered with coarse adpressed black hairs ; posterior pair 

 of thighs incrassate, ovate, armed on their lower surface with two 

 acute spines, the first shorter, placed near the middle, the other 

 subapical. 



Hab. Northern China. Collections of the British Museum 

 and W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



Temnaspis nigriceps. 



T, subelongatus, parailelus, nitido-rufo-fulvus, villosus; pleuris capite- 

 que nigris ; facie iuferiori, antennis, thorace, femoribus quatuor 

 anticis, tibiis tarsisque flavis ; unguiculis piceis ; elytris nigro- 

 purpureis, macula apicali rufo-fulva. — Long. 4 lin. 



Subelongate, parallel, shining rufo-fulvous, villose. Head 

 coarsely punctured, front impressed between the eyes with a 

 deep fovea ; shining black, lower portion of face and the antennae 

 yellow, the latter more than half the length of the body, four 

 basal joints shining, sparingly covered with long hairs, the rest 

 covered with a short adpressed concolorous pile. Thorax broader 

 than long, subcylindrical ; sides slightly rounded, constricted at 

 the extreme base and in front, produced near the former into an 

 indistinct protuberance ; above shining yellow, grooved at the 

 apex, and narrowly so at the extreme base, anterior groove 

 dilated and slightly angled in the middle ; surface deeply but 

 not very closely punctured, covered with coarse erect hairs. 

 Scutellum triangular, its apex emarginate, distantly punctured, 

 shining black, limb fulvous. Elytra broader than the thorax ; 

 sides parallel; apex rounded, dehiscent at the suture; above 

 convex, deeply punctured, covered with long subdepressed hairs ; 

 shining black, a narrow semilunate apical patch rufo-fulvous. 

 Beneath shining rufo-fulvous ; pleurae nigro-piceous ; legs (the 



