1888.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 349 



Var. Elytra obscure fulvous. 



Length 3^ lines. 



Head impunctate, fulvous, the vertex with a black spot ; labrum 

 black ; palpi fulvous, the penultimate joint incrassate. Antennse only 

 extending to the base of the elytra, black, the lower three joints 

 fulvous, piceous above, shiniug, the others opaque, pubescent, the 

 second and third joints short, equal. Thorax three times broader 

 than long, the sides slightly rounded at the middle, narrowly mar- 

 gined, the anterior angles thickened, the surface impunctate, fulvous, 

 with four black spots placed transversely ; scutellum black. Elytra 

 ovate-oblong, metallic dark blue or violaceous, covered throughout 

 with distinct punctures of variable size, arranged here and there in 

 indistinct lines, of which a short one more deeply impressed is placed 

 within the shoulders, and another row accompanies the sutural 

 margin ; legs and breast black, the tibiae closely pubescent ; abdomen 

 fulvous ; mesosternum swollen and tuberculate. 



E. thoracica may be distinguished from E. jlaviventris, Baly, by 

 the want of the thoracic impressions and the colour and markings of 

 the same part. 



PhYLLOBROTICA (?) ORNATA, n. sp. 



Fulvous ; antennse, the upper edge of the femora, tibiae and tarsi, 

 black ; thorax bifoveolate ; elytra finely punctured, black, an ovate 

 patch at the side and another near the apex, flavous ; epipleurse 

 extremely small. 



Var. Head black at the vertex, elytra entirely fulvous. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head dark fulvous, impunctate, the frontal tubercles transverse ; 

 clyjjeus in shape of a triangular ridge. Antennse slender, filiform, the 

 second joint short, the third and following joints nearly equal, the 

 three lower ones more or less fulvous below, the rest black. Thorax 

 about one half broader than long, the sides straight, slightly concave, 

 the posterior angles acute, obliquely cut, the surface with a few minute 

 punctures near the base, the latter depressed, with a deep fovea at 

 each side ; scutellum broad, its apex broadly rounded, flavous. 

 Elytra finely and closely punctured, somewhat depressed anteriorly 

 along the suture, the black portion interrupted at the sides by a 

 large ovate flavous spot which, commencing a little below the base, 

 extends to the middle, but not to the sutural or lateral margin ; 

 a somewhat similar-shaped spot is placed near the apex, which it 

 does not quite reach, being surrounded by a narrow margin of the 

 ground-colour. The underside and the legs fulvous, the femora above 

 and the outer edge of the tibiae with a black streak ; tibiae unarmed ; 

 the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the three following 

 joints together ; claws appendiculate. 



Hab. Foochan. 



Although this species has the general appearance of Phyllobrotica 

 and its structural characters, it cUflFers somewhat in having extremely 

 small elytral epipleurae and a longer metatarsus of the posterior legs. 

 In the absence of other similarly constructed species I have placed 



