1889.] COLEOPTERA OF THE FAMILY TELEPHORIDE. 101 
Communicated to me by Mr. A. E. Hudd, with no other 
locality. 
_ 12. TELEPHORUS INSULARIS, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 6.) 
Flavus ; capite, antennis (articulo basali excepto) tarsisque nigro- 
Juscis ; elytris subviridibus granuloso-coriaceis, fere opacis ; 
thorace subquadrato, disco levi haud canaliculato. 
Long. 9-11 millim. 
Hab. Andaman Islands (coll, Gorham ; Mus. Calcutta). 
Head fuscous, nearly black above; gular portion, mouth, and 
palpi yellow ; antennz about half the length of the body, their first 
joint and part of the second yellow. Thorax rather broader than 
long, smooth, the entire margin rather reflexed, together with the 
scutellum and whole body and legs, excepting the tarsi, yellow ; 
elytra rather parallel, not much narrowed, of a beautiful bluish green, 
somewhat opaque and roughened in a granular manner, also clothed 
with a very short and fine fulvous down. The abdomen is doubly 
excised at the apex on each side of the middle, but the sex is un- 
certain ; the claws are simple. 
be 13. TELEPHORUS NICOBARINUS, Sp. nov. 
Flavus; capite supra nigro-fusco, antennis corporis fere longitudine 
subinfuscatis ; ore, palpis et parte gulari testaceis, elytris ob- 
scure cerulis, geniculis tarsisque brunneis. 
Long. 9 millim. 
Hab. Nicobar Islands (Mus. Calcutta). 
Closely allied to 7. insularis, and distinguished from it chiefly on 
account of its smaller size and some differences in the coloration, 
while at the same time the antenne appear to be longer. The whole 
insect is rather more delicately built, and the sculpture of the elytra 
is finer. There is a series of specimens in the Calcutta Museum, 
and it seems at least to be an insular form of 7’. insularis peculiar to 
the Nicobars. 
_ 14, TELEPHORUs BIETI, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 5.) 
Nigro-ceruleus, nitidus; prothorace transversim subquadrato, 
flavo, disco late nigro-ceruleo, elytris subrugosis cupreo-violaceis, 
antennis pedibusque nigris. 
Long. 15-17 millim. ¢ Q. 
Hab. Thibet, Tatsienléu (F. Bieé). 
Head wide, distinctly but finely punctured, the crown with a 
longitudinal widely impressed channel, with an oblique fossa on each 
side behind the antenne, the mandibles are testaceous excepting at 
their tips. Thorax wider than long, the lateral margins rather 
widely, the base rather finely, reflexed ; the disk shining and glabrous, 
channelled in the middle, the channel deep behind, obsolete in front, 
the angles rectangular but not distinct. Elytra much wider than 
the thorax, thickly and finely coriaceous, dull except at their base, of 
a beautiful purple or coppery-violet colour. Body beneath blue- 
black or bronze, the legs black but partaking of the colour of the 
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