Genus and Species of Loiuj {corn Coleojttera. 309 



bcliiiul, anil canaliculate in the midcllc near the base. Elytra 

 slightly depressed and canaliculate along each side of the 

 scutelluni, nmndcd at the apex. Legs increasing in length 

 from the first to the third pair; leinora stalked at the base, 

 thickened into a iusitorni club between the middle and the 

 apex. Intercoxal part of i)rostcrnum furnished with a down- 

 wardly-directed conical tubercle ; mesostcrnum with a large 

 subcylindrical process, which projects downwards for some 

 distance below the lovid of the coxte. 



This genus must be placed in Lacordaire's " groupe " 

 Stevasjiides. In many of its characters it seems to come 

 nearest to Eurj/jthigus^ Thorns., but in the structure of the 

 liead it is quite different, being in this respect very like the 

 genus rii'dagathes^ Thorns. 



Dicehslernus coralUnus^ sp. n. 



Rufus ; prothorace opaco, disco valde elevate et punctato-rugoso, 

 versus margiiiem anticum et ad latera plus miuusve trausversira 

 rugose, lateribus pone tubcrculoa sat abrupte constrictis, et ab 

 tuberculis usque ad margincm anticum gradatim convergeutibus ; 

 scutelle eloDgato, postice acuminate, supra ad basin canaliculate; 

 elytris ruie-pelitis, fere irapunctatis, fascia transversa nigre- 

 velutina pene medium : pcdibus rufe-nitidis, coxis genubusque 

 uigris, antenuis articulis 3" ad 7"'" apice, et sequentibus fere tetis, 

 nigris. 



Long. 21-27, lat. 8-10 ram. 



JIah. Central Formosa {Iloht). 



Almost entirely of a bright redilish colour, the prothorax 

 being rugosely sculptured and opaque, and the rest of the 

 body, including the legs and elytra, more or less highly 

 polished. A little behind the middle of the elytra there is a 

 transverse band, narrowed near the suture^ made up of short 

 black hairs springing from small and very closely placed 

 punctures, these punctures being easily seen under a lens 

 near the edges of the band ; the rest of the elytral surface is 

 almost wholly impunctate. The coxte, trochanters, and the 

 tips of the femora and tarsal joints are black, and there is a 

 fringe of short black hairs on theuppersideof the hind femora 

 in the middle third of their length. The third and succeeding 

 joints of the antennte are blackish at the apex and, to a greater 

 or less extent, along the anterior border, the last three or four 

 joints being almost entirely dark brown. 



