236 Mr. H. W. Bates on the 
the much more elongated elytra, longer and less dilated 
thorax, with prominent lateral angles, and in colour. The 
head is very similar, not narrowed behind the ejes. The 
thorax is longer ; the anterior angles are much produced, 
and stand away from the sides of the neck ; the margin 
from the angle is not rounded, but straight or even in- 
curved, and the posterior narrowing is much more gradual. 
The pale marks of the elytra are confined to a narrow, in- 
conspicuous patch on each side at the apex, which con- 
tinues for some distance along the extreme lateral edge. 
Nehria pulchcrrima, n. sj). 
Flavo-testacea nitida, elytris utriuque mox pone medium 
plaga rotundata nigra. 
Long. 5^ lin. S . 
Hiogo. 
Head and thorax much narrower than the elytra, the 
latter rather short and broad for this genus, deeply striate ; 
the stri:u regularly punctured, destitute of large punctures 
on the 3rd interstice. The head is smooth ; tlic eyes large 
and prominent. The thorax is half tlie Avidth of the elytra, 
and cordiform, moderately rounded before the middle, 
narrowing somcAvhat gradually to the rather prominent 
anterior angles, and much more considerably, sinuately, 
naiTOAved behind to the very sharp and somcAAdiat produced 
hind angles ; the disk is smooth, and the depressed borders 
obscurely punctate-rugose. The elytra are broad, but 
rounded at the shoulders. 
Mr. LcAvis took several specimens of this handsome 
species also in China, on the margins of a lake at Kiu- 
Kiang, Yang-tsze. These are smaller than the Ja])aiiese 
(4A lines). The nearest ally to the species is the N. 
xanthacra of Northern India. 
N. Chinensis, Bates, Eutom. Monthly Mag. Aug. 1872^ 
p. 52. 
" Elongata, piceo-nigra, antennis, palj)is jiedibusquc 
rufo-piceis ; capite parvo, oculis valde jirominentibus ; 
thoracc transversim (piadrato, postice gradatim leviter 
angustato ; elytris oblongo-]iarallclis, acute punctato- 
striatis, iuterstitiis omniuo crebrc punctulatis, 3'° 4-punc- 
tato." 
Long. 61- lin. 1. c. 
Nagasaki. (China, on the banks of the Yang-tsze, 
widely distributed, "i 
