Coleopterous Familif Dennedtida}. 445 



Genua Antiirenus. 



Anihrentis vnriiis, V., was described in Enf. Syat. i. p. 2G4. 

 The rtf«'ience f^ivrii in both Gf iniuin^cr ami Harold's and 

 1)h1Iii Torre's Catalogues (Syst. Kiit. p. CO) is to Jiyrrhus 

 tyarius, ¥., nn entirely different iiisfcl, now known as 

 CyiUuM sericeua^ Forst. 



A. i-ar<i.r, Wat., is synonymous with A, fascialus, Herbst, 

 whicli lias a very wide raii;^o. 



A. lepidits, Lrc, and orciden", (/asev, seem to me to be 

 vari«ties of the proU-aii and almost universal species ^1. piin- 

 piuellcp, F. 



Reiiter's t^'pe of A. subclaviij^r is npparently the female. 

 Besides specimens from his locality (Aden), we have speci- 

 mens from Calcutta (taken in the Museum compound). The 

 species has been sent also from the N.W. Himalayas (taken 

 in flowers of Castatten vesca) and the Punjab. In the males 

 the antenna? are lonj^er than in the fenjules and the club 

 consists of two j >ints only instead of three. 



Antfirenus (subgen. Florilinus) i>inensisj sp. n. 



Brunneus, squamis breviter triangularibua vestitus, vcntralibus 

 griscis, dorsalibus brunneis et griseis, pronoti basi ab his toto 

 tecto, elytrorum fasciis duabus fere rectis maculaque apicali, 

 antennis T-articulatis, clava soUda, gracili, maris quam articulis 

 prtccedcntibus molto longiori. 



Long. 2*5-3 mm. 



Hah. N. China : Tientsin (F. M. Thomson). 



A long series of specimens received from Mr. Thomson 

 show constant differences from ^1. tnuscrorum, L., tj which it 

 is exceedingly close. It is rather narrower in shape and the 

 average size is a little smaller. The scales are of the sanie 

 short triangular form, but a little longer in A. sinetisisy and 

 those forming the background are not black but a dull brown. 

 The pale patches of scales at the sides of the pronotum, 

 which are j^efaratrul in .^1. vtn.-^ceorum by a well-marked 

 interval, unite in A. sianunsis u|ton tiie basal lobe, and the 

 fascias of the elytra aie less irregular in outline. The 

 antenna consists of seven joints, the first two globular, 

 tollowed in the male by four equal minute transverse joints 

 and a slender fusiform solid club considerably lunger than all 

 the rest togeilur ; in the female, by two smali but slightly 

 elongate joints, two progressively longer, dilating towards 

 the extremity, and a club-joint about as long as the three 

 piecedinpj ones together. 



