﻿of 
  some 
  new 
  Species 
  of 
  Coleoptera 
  from 
  China, 
  ^-c. 
  235 
  

  

  Elytra 
  opaca, 
  subvelutina, 
  ad 
  basin 
  latitudine 
  basi 
  pronoti 
  

   aequalia, 
  irregulariter 
  punctata, 
  intus 
  humeros 
  depressa, 
  sutura 
  

   lineisque 
  quatnor 
  longitudinalibus 
  in 
  singulo 
  paullo 
  elevatis 
  

   subnitidis, 
  2da 
  et 
  4ta 
  postice 
  conjuncta. 
  Pedes 
  piceo-fusci 
  

   villosi. 
  Corpus 
  infra 
  piceo-fusciun, 
  villosum, 
  membrana 
  

   inter 
  caput 
  et 
  prothoracem 
  utrinque 
  spina 
  parva 
  cornea 
  

   obtusa 
  plana 
  armata 
  ; 
  abdominis 
  segmento 
  2do 
  plaga 
  media 
  

   rotunda, 
  Stioque 
  altera 
  minori 
  ovali 
  transversa, 
  setosa, 
  no- 
  

   tatis. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  appears 
  to 
  differ 
  from 
  the 
  following 
  in 
  the 
  much 
  

   less 
  strongly 
  punctured 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  body, 
  and 
  the 
  velvet-like 
  

   coating 
  of 
  the 
  elytra. 
  

  

  Callirkipis 
  Championii, 
  Westw. 
  (PI. 
  XII. 
  fig. 
  2.) 
  

   C. 
  piceo-nigra, 
  elytris 
  magis 
  castaneis, 
  subnitidus 
  punctatissi- 
  

   mus, 
  capite 
  carina 
  elevaia 
  inter 
  antennas, 
  clypeo 
  verticeque 
  

   antice 
  concavis 
  ; 
  antennis 
  (articulis 
  2dis 
  basalibus 
  exceptis) 
  

   brunneis, 
  pronoto 
  subtrigono, 
  postice 
  subplano 
  utrinque 
  im- 
  

   pressionibus 
  tribus 
  in 
  triangulum 
  dispositis. 
  (Fem. 
  ?) 
  

   Long, 
  Corp. 
  lin. 
  9. 
  

   Habitat 
  in 
  insula 
  Taprobana. 
  Major 
  Champion. 
  

  

  Caput 
  nigrum, 
  subnitidum, 
  rude 
  punctatissimum, 
  ante 
  oculos 
  

   fere 
  in 
  rostrum 
  angustum 
  productum, 
  vertico 
  antice 
  concavo, 
  

   margine 
  elevato 
  et 
  inter 
  antennas 
  carinam 
  obtusam 
  trans- 
  

   versam 
  formante, 
  postice 
  longitudinaliter 
  impresso 
  ; 
  clypeo- 
  

   que 
  minus 
  concavo. 
  Labrum 
  parvum, 
  subtectum, 
  antice 
  

   rotundatum, 
  setosum. 
  Mandibulae 
  breves 
  crassas, 
  apice 
  

   acute 
  falcatse 
  denteque 
  parvo 
  acuto 
  in 
  medio 
  marginis 
  interni 
  

   armatae. 
  Maxillae 
  lobis 
  duobus 
  parvis 
  angustis 
  equalibus 
  

   setosis 
  terminatse 
  ; 
  palpi 
  maxillares 
  mediocres, 
  satis 
  crassi, 
  

   articulo 
  terminali 
  subconico. 
  Antennae 
  in 
  individuo 
  unico 
  

   viso 
  breves 
  (longitudine 
  latitudinem 
  partis 
  posticae 
  pronoti 
  

   aequanti); 
  articulis 
  3 
  — 
  10 
  laminam 
  elongatam 
  (singula 
  circiter 
  

   dimidium 
  longitudinis 
  totius 
  antennae 
  aequali), 
  articulis 
  duobus 
  

   basalibus 
  nigris 
  nitidis 
  punctatis 
  ; 
  reliquis 
  brunneis 
  velutinis, 
  

   ultimo 
  elongato 
  laminato. 
  Pronotum 
  subtrigonum, 
  antice 
  

   convexum 
  et 
  declive, 
  postice 
  subplanum 
  punctis 
  minutis 
  

   impressum, 
  utrinque 
  etiam 
  impressionibus 
  tribus 
  rotundatis 
  

   parum 
  distinctis 
  in 
  triangulum 
  dispositis. 
  Elytra 
  piceo- 
  

   castanea, 
  minute 
  punctatissima, 
  basi 
  laeviori 
  intus 
  humeros 
  

   baud 
  profunde 
  impressa, 
  singulo 
  lineis 
  quatuor 
  elevatis 
  longi- 
  

   tudinalibus 
  basin 
  et 
  apicem 
  elytrorum 
  baud 
  attingentibus 
  ; 
  

  

  