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SOME NEW COLEOPTERA IN THE TRING MUSEUM. 



By KARL JORDAN, Ph.D. 



SCARABAJSIDAE. 



1. Propomacrus jansoni sp. nov. 



Eucheirus parryi , Bates (nee Gray), Enlnm. XXIII. p. 244 (1890). 



cJ ? . Differs from the two Indian representatives [^parryi (1848) and madeayi 

 (1840)] as follows : the thorax is less coarsely pnnctnred, less impressed in the 

 middle line, more dilated at the sides, and deeply sinnate before the acute posterior 

 angles ; the edge of tlie thorax not spined within the sinus, but the spines in front 

 of the sinus long. Elj-tra longer than in the Indian forms, each with a tawny line 

 near the suture, abbreviated in front, interrupted in ? , wider posteriorly, continuous 

 with a broad lateral tawny stripe, which is anteriorly more or less split up ; at base 

 tliere is a tawny patch near the shoulders, and in S a smaller one between it and 

 scutellnm ; besides, a very few minute tawny dots on the disc. 



c?. Fore tibiae with the terminal tooth nearly twice as long as the postmedian 

 one, their underside much more densely spined than either in parryi or macleaiji: 

 upperside flatter, with the outer edge sharper. 



//-■;/;. cJ {ti/pc), Kin-chang, Tse-kiang, China, received from Mr. 0. E. Janson, 1 897 ; 

 ¥ , Chia-ting-fu, W. China, lODO feet, July 1889 (A. E. Pratt). 



Bates, who regarded the ? caught by Pratt and now in the Tring Museum as 

 a variety of parryi, did not notice the great difference in the thorax of the two 

 insects. 



CERAMBYCIDAE. 



2. Nemophas websteri sp. nov. 



S ? . Supra et infra dense corallino tomentosns ; antennis nigris, articulo 1° sat 

 dense punctato ; elytris sex fasciis transversis nudis nitidis atris jmnctatis ornatis, 1' 

 angusta subbasali postscutellari, versus humeros saepe obsoleta {spec, typ.), 2" paulo 

 latiore, 3" submediana et 4" postmediana latioribns, duabns posticis angustis, pins 

 minusve irregularibus, saepe conjunctis ; pedibus nigris, punctatis, femoribus jiarum 

 corallino tomentosis. 



Hub. New Hanover, Bismarck Archipelago, March and April 1897 (Captain 

 H. C. Webster) ; a series of both sexes. 



Easily distinguishable from ^Y. (/rayi (1859), Southern Moluccas, by the entirely 

 coralline red ujiper and under surfaces, the number and position of the black bands 

 on the elytra, and the puncturation of the legs and first antennal joint. A central 

 spot on the pronotiim and the uii]5erside of thoracical spines are often denuded. 



3. Nemophas cyanescens sp. nov. 



cf ? . Formae timorensi ljatoceroid.<:< dictae similis, sed prothorace supra et infra 

 nigro, snbtilissime brunnescente pnbescente ; elytris nigro-viridi-cyaneis ; processn 

 mesosternali minus elevato cum coxis quatuor jwsticis nigro, distingnendus. 



Hub. Kei Toeal, Jaunary to March 1896 (Cajitain 11. C. Webster) : 1 c?, I ?. 



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