collected on the borders of Tibet. 75 



spaced on the disk. Elytra often reddish brown, translucent, sprinkled with 

 smallish umbilicated punctures, the sutural and two faint discoidal costae 

 more sparsely punctured, and with their edges much broken by short trans- 

 verse rugae, hke the rest of the surface ; there is a faint submarginal raised 

 line. Pygidium nearly plane, sparsely punctured, shining. The breast 

 clothed with tawny hairs ; the abdomen convex, shining, very finely punc- 

 tured. 



Lachnosterna parallela, Motsch., Etud. Entom. 1854, p. 64. 

 A common and widely-distributed species in Eastern Asia. 

 Mr. Leech obtained it abundantly in Japan, and found it also 

 at Fu-chau. I have seen examples also from the Island of 

 Formosa. 



Lachnosterna pexicollis, Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1886, 

 p. 324 {HolotricJiia, id.). 

 Sze-chuen. M. Fairmaire's examples were from Yunnan. 

 The species belongs to a numerous series in which the head and 

 thorax are very closely and uniformly covered with small punc- 

 tures, which on the thorax run more or less into wavy rows. 

 The clypeus is broadly rounded on the sides, and notched in the 

 middle of the front edge. The situation of the tooth on the 

 tarsal claws varies from species to species ; in the present one it 

 is very near the apex, and forms with it two nearly equal teeth, 

 justifying M. Fairmaire's statement, "unguibus bifidis." The 

 colour above is dull black, clothed with a greyish pruinosity. 

 The following two species are closely allied : — 



Lachnosterna calliglypta, n. sp. 

 L. pexicolli minor et differt elytris, pygidio, corpore subtus cum pedibus 

 castaneo-rufis nitidis ; supra subtilius punctata. Gracile oblonga, con- 

 vexior, capite thoraceque densissime et eleganter punctatis ; elytris politis 

 perparum rugoso-insequalibus undique sat sequaliter punctatis, costa suturali 

 (alta) alteris duabus discoidalibus minus distiuctis, 4to submarginali angusta, 

 Isevioribus. Pygidium subconicum valde convexum aiqualiter punctatum, 

 politum. Subtus corpore medio cum pedibus polito sat crebre punctate. 

 Unguiculi magis curvati, dente robusto supra medium sito. Long. 17i millim. 



Sze-chuen. Two examples, doubtless females. 



The species is closely allied to L. nuhiliventris (Bates) from 

 Kulu, but differs inter alia in the dentition of the claws, the 

 tooth in the Kulu species being slender, acute, situated below 

 the middle, and inclined towards the base. 



Lachnosterna ^quabilis, n. sp. 



L. sinensl (Hope) et L. castanea (Waterh.) proxime affiuis, ambobus 

 differt thoracis angulis anticis breviter sinuato-truncatis. Oblongo castaneo- 

 rufa supra glabra subnitida; capite thoraceque obscurioribus, sicut in 

 L. ijexicoUi sculpturatis. Occiput carina transversali alta, acuta. Thorax 

 angulis posticis omninorotundatis, anticis breviter sinuato-truncatis. Elytra 

 oblonga perparum ovoidea, convexa dense aequaliter punctulata, glabra absque 

 rugulis et costis, costa suturali (antice et postice abbreviata) excepta. Subtus 

 nitida pectore fulvo-villoso, abdomiue et pedibus punctulato-pubescentibus 



