38 Mr. A. White on some new LamellicGrn Beetles. 



YI. — Descriptions of two apparently new Species of Lamellicorn 

 Beetles. By Adam White, Assistant Zool. Dep. Brit. Mus. 



Anoplognathiis {Calloodes) Gh'aijianus,^^\\\te. 

 Supra leete metallico-virescens, flavo circumdatus, subtus ferru- 



gineus metallico-tinctus. Long. lin. 12 — 13^. 



Hub. Australia (Sept.?). Rlus. Brit. 



Domino Joanni E. Gray, Musei Britannici Zoologiae custodi inde- 

 fesso, species haec perpulchra dedicata est. 



In another work, figaires of the trophi and a more detailed 

 description of this beautiful subgenus of Anoplognathidce vdW. be 

 given ; it is allied to the typical genus, differing in the greater 

 breadth of the thorax, and in the elytra nearly covering the podex ; 

 the whole insect is flatter, more especially on 

 the sides, and has a more D}i:isciform appear- 

 ance even than the genus Repsimus, MacLeay, 

 to which at first I thought it belonged. The 

 head is green and punctured, the shield yel- 

 lowish, the sides rounded and somewhat 

 straight in front, under side of head of a 

 bronzy ferruginous. Thorax narrower than 

 elytra, sides slightly rounded so as to be almost 

 continuous with the side line of elytra, pro- 

 jecting behind in the middle and notched over the scutellum, 

 lively glossy green, the sides broadly margined -nith yellow. 

 Elytra much depressed, especially on the sides and behind, ha\dng 

 a wide but shallow sinus on the side; surface punctured, the 

 pvmctures generally running in strise, some of the rows placed 

 in slightly grooved lines ; it is of a lively glossy green, the sides 

 broadly margined with yellow. Legs and under side ferruginous ; 

 base of abdominal segments green, as are the tips of the femora 

 and all the tarsi ; front edge of tibiae of fore-legs without teeth, 

 hinder tibise moderate*. 



* Through an oversight of the engraver, the tarsi in the above figure are 

 most inacciu'ately represented. 



In the British Museum collection are two specimens of the Micronyx cJdo' 

 ropliyllus, Boisd., Faune de I'Oceanie, ii. 188, Voy. Astrol. t. 6. f. IS. This 

 insect appears to me to connect the AreodidcB and yJnoplognaf/iicIce in Bur- 

 nieister's recently published volume of tlie 'Ilandbuch' (iv.). No notice is 

 taken of this New Zealand form, which is perhaps regarded by the philosophic 

 professor of Halle as belonging to a different family; the generic name stands 

 in preference to Schonherr's. (See Gen. et Spec. Cure. vii. p. 313.) 



1 may here mention that the male of the Sisyphus Senegalensis, Dej., of 

 which a female only is in the British Museum collection, has the long process 

 attached to the hind-legs, as in the Sisyphus Boivringii from China, described 

 in the last Number of the ' Annals.' Mr. Waterhouse has a male in his col- 

 lection. Mr. Charles Bowring of Queen Square, Westminster, informed me 

 that his brother, John Charles Bowring, Esq., found the Sisyphus named after 

 him to be a vcrv common insect in Hong Kong. 



