242 Dr. D. Sharp on new Japanese Coleoptera. 



secondaries, the basal half blue-black, the outer half nearly the 

 same as in ^. aurora, but with a wide submarginal blue-black 

 band much broken on the outer edge extending fi'om the apex 

 to the anal angle, the fringe snow-white. Underside bluish 

 grey : the primaries with the outer margin and two wide 

 bands crossing from the costal to the inner margin bluish 

 black : secondaries crossed below the middle by a wide 

 bluish black band, the outer margin black from the base to 

 near the apex. Head, thorax, and upper part of the abdomen 

 bluish black, the sides greyish, the underside orange ; antennge 

 black, legs greyish brown. ? . Primaries black, crossed 

 about the middle, from the costal to the inner margin 

 near the anal angle, by a wide greenish-blue band, beyond 

 which is a narrower band, corresponding with that in the 

 male : secondaries black, with a wide greenish-blue band 

 crossing the wing below the middle, from the apex to the 

 inner margin above the anal angle. Head, thorax, and the 

 upperside of the abdomen bluish black, the sides bluish grey ; 

 the underside and the anus orange, but not so bright in 

 colour as in the male ; antennse black, legs greyish brown. 

 Expanse (J 4^ inches, ? 4| inches. 



Hab. Aola in Guadalcanar Island, Solomon Islands (C. 

 M. Woodford, Mus. Druce) . 



The collection contained one male and three females of this 

 beautiful species : it is allied to A. aurora, Salvin. 



XXXI. — Descriptions of some new Coleoptera from Japan. 

 By Dr. D. Sharp. 



No members of the Coleopterous families Parnidge and 

 Georyssidee had been described from Japan till the present 

 year, when H. von Schonfeldt described a species of Stenelmis 

 from Hiogo. Mr. Lewis has possessed for some years an 

 example of 8. fbveicollis, Schonf, ; and I now describe two 

 other Japanese genera of the family, and also a species of 

 Georyssus, brought to England by him. 



Elmomorphus, n. gen. Parnidarum. 



AntennsB breves, basi auriculatae, articulis externis compreasis : caput 

 receptum. Pedes elongati. Corpus subtus tomento aerifero ves- 

 titum, supra fere nudum. 



This insect has more the appearance of an Elmis than of a 



