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together with the legs (the coxae, knees, and tarsi excepted), rufous. 

 Head rugose-punctate, forehead impressed with a longitudinal fovea ; 

 antennae subfiliform. Thorax transverse, sides rounded, narrowed in 

 front, obsoletely angled just behind the middle, posterior angles pro- 

 minent, disk convex, closely punctured, rugose-punctate on the sides. 

 Elytra rather broader than the thorax, surface deeply and closely 

 punctured ; interspaces over the anterior two-thirds elevate-reticulate, 

 transversely strigate, those towards the apex covered with short oblong 

 longitudinal tubercles, — these latter, together with the transverse 

 ridges, chalybeate. 



Genus Endoxus, Kirby. 

 Endo.vus gradlicornis. 



E. oblonga, convexa, nigra, subnitida, crebre punctata, pilis subsquamse- 

 formibus adpressis fulvo-fuscis obtecta, punctis fortiter impressis; 

 antennis gracilibus, piceis ; thorace vitta utrinque elytrisque vittis 

 septem e pilis similibus densius positis instructis, femoribus posticis 

 subtus unidentatis. — Long. 2h lin. 



Hub. Hongkong. Collected by Mr. Bowring. ' 



Oblong, convex, coarsely and closely punctured. Face broad and 

 flattened, impressed in the middle with a longitudinal groove ; antennae 

 equal in length to the body, slender, nearly filiform ; eyes prominent, 

 entire, surrounded by an imperfect orbit ; labrum pale piceous, shining, 

 impunctate. Thorax subcylindrical, scarcely longer than broad, slightly 

 narrowed at the apex, surface closely punctured. Elytra more deeply 

 punctured, and the squamaeform pubescence on their surface coarser 

 than that of the thorax ; the longitudinal vittae less distinct near the 

 apex, and confounded with the hairs of the general surface, which are 

 much denser there than on the basal half of the elytra. 



Genus Callomoepha, Stal. 

 Callomorpha imperialis. 



C. oblonga, valde convexa, laete purpurea, nitida, subcrebre punctata, pilis 

 erectis nigris vestita ; pedibus viridi-tinctis ; antennis subincrassatis, 

 extrorsum nigris ; tibiis intermediis extrorsum ante apicem emarginatis. 

 — Long. 5-5J lin. 



Hob. Northern China. Collected by Mr. Fortune. 



Broadly oblong, shining purple, closely covered with erect black 

 hairs. Head perpendicular, subrugose-punctate ; face broad, apex of 

 epistome with a small shining tubercle ; antennae longer than half the 

 body, slender and more or less stained with metallic green on the basal 

 half, their outer half subincrassate, black. Thorax subcylindrical, 

 slightly broader than long, sides nearly straight and parallel, roimded 

 at the extreme apex, lateral border visible on its posterior two-thirds, 



