312 On new Coleopiera from Hainan Island. 



Tlie abdomen lias four stripes at tlie side as in T. ornaia, but 

 they are broader and rich yellow. Tibiaj and tarsi obscure 

 pitchy red. 



JJah. Hainan Island [J. Whitehead). 



Tceniodera {Euselates ?) Galei, sp. n. 



Sratura et color fere Taniodero' quadrivittaice ; scutello nigro, 

 vilta flava ornato ; pygidio maculis flavis tribus ; processu sternali 

 sat magno. $ . 



Long. 20 mm. 



Head black, with the front margin pitchy red; with two 

 yellow stripes ; the clypeus more deeply incised than in 

 T. quadrivittata. Thorax black, with four yellow stripes, the 

 middle ones almost parallel ; broader than in T. quadrivittata 

 and with the posterior angles less acute. Scutellum elongate, 

 black, with a yellow stripe, which expands at the base. 

 Elytra red, with the scutellar region, the apex, and a stripe 

 extending from the shoulder to beyond the middle, and then 

 dilated towards the suture, black. There are two yellow spots 

 at the suture before the middle, two behind the middle, and 

 one at the apex of each elytron, one on the margin below the 

 shoulder, and one rather behind the middle. The pygidium 

 lias an oval spot in the middle and a smaller one on each 

 side. The sides of the sterna are ornamented with yellow 

 spots. The abdomen has a yellow fascia on each side of the 

 basal segment, slightly interrupted in the middle ; the second 

 segment has a transverse spot at the side and a longitudinal 

 spot nearer the middle; the third sc^gment has two fascise at 

 the side, interrupted in its middle; the fourth segment has a 

 similar fascia, but it is not interrupted. The middle of the 

 abdomen is sparsely punctured, smooth at the base. Tibiaj 

 and tarsi red. 



M. Thomson (Le Nat. i. 1880, p. 277) has split up the 

 genus Taniodera into several genera, with some of which I 

 am unacquainted. Euselates is said to have the mesosternal 

 process " magna, cariniformis, apice obtusa." This character 

 would apply to the species I am describing, and it may there- 

 fore be provisionally placed in that genus, if it be adopted. 



Hah. Hong Kong (C. Y. Gale) ; Hainan Island {J. White- 

 head) . 



