340 MR. H. W. BATES ON FORMOSAN COLEOPTERA. [Julie 12, 



Formosan fauna as regards the Coleoptera. Of thirty-eight new 

 species which I have to describe (excluding for the present the ob- 

 scure groups as already mentioned), sixteen are closely allied to known 

 Chinese specific forms, fourteen to species more widely distributed 

 over Eastern Asia, two to Philippine Island forms, and six only are 

 not very closely allied to any known species ; these latter, however, 

 are not strikingly peculiar, and have their nearest allies in Tropical 

 Asian forms. The relations of the known species are not very different 

 from those of the new ones. Thus, out of the sixty-nine known 

 species which I have determined with the help of a few entomolo- 

 gical friends who study special groups, no less than forty-seven are 

 Chinese, twenty-six of wider distribution, or found in other parts of 

 Tropical Asia, but not in China, and three Japanese or Japanese and 

 Chinese. It must be borne in mind that we are at present very im- 

 perfectly acquainted with the insects of China ; and consequently the 

 relations of the two faunas may be still more intimate. In the letter 

 which accompanied the collection, Mr. Swinhoe mentioned a species 

 of Damaster, a highly peculiar Japanese generic form, as contained 

 in the boxes. I have not succeeded in finding this insect in the col- 

 lection, and am afraid it is lost, as the boxes were opened in transit. 

 The discovery of a Damaster in the island of Formosa would have 

 been the most interesting fact to record in a paper on the Coleoptera 

 of the island. 



The friends who have assisted me in the determination of the new 

 species are Major F. J. S. Parry in the Lucanidce, Mr. J. S. Baly 

 in the Phytophaga, and Mr. Janson in the Elaterida. All these 

 gentlemen kindly allowed me to examine the type specimens of de- 

 scribed Chinese and Asiatic species in their collections. 



ClCINDELID^E. 

 ClCINDELA KALEEA. 



Gracilis, thorace angustato, subcylindrico, medio paulo latiore ; 

 capite thoraceque minutissime crebre punctatis, opacis, obscure 

 cupreis; ehjtris nigris, opacis, leviter viridi-aneo tinctis, sparsim 

 punctatis, macula parva humerali, tribus discoidalibus quarum 

 duabus posterioribus interdum connexis, lineola marginali alte- 

 raqae apicali virguliformi a/bis; capite inter oculos modice 

 depresso, multistrigoso ; labro testaceo ( 3 ), medio producto 

 et sinuato-truncato, dente parvo acuto ; antennis modice e/on- 

 gatis ; corpore subtus pedibusque elongatis, viridi-aneis. 

 Long. 4 1 lin., 6 • 



A slender species, allied to the group to which C. argentata (Fab.) 

 belongs, but of a more elongate form, with head more depressed be- 

 tween the eves, and thorax more elongate and cylindrical. The 

 colours are obscure, and the surface of the elytra very opake. The 

 labrum (in the male) is transverse, produced in the middle, with the 

 front edge of the produced part sinuate truncate, and having a small 

 tooth in the middle of the truncature ; but the lateral angles of the 

 truncature are not dentiform. The elytra have a sutural spine ; their 



