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The general colour of this species is steel-blue, the legs being of 
the same colour as the body, with the tarsi duller and blacker. The 
head is large and very shining, without punctuation, excepting that 
the front edge of the clypeus is rugose; the mandibles are yellow 
externally at their bases, the palpi are black, the antennze have two 
joints at the base shining black, those following are dull, being very 
finely pubescent, these are fuscous above; all the joints are 
ochraceous beneath, the three before the apical one being almost 
entirely ochraceous, and the apical one being black at the tip. The 
thorax is rectangular, slightly transverse, yellow, smooth and 
shining, with two roundish black spots on the disk placed near 
together, but rarely united. In veryjlarge females the front of the 
thorax is a very little wider than the base, and the head is then very 
large. The elytra are of a deep indigo-blue, dull, being very finely 
coriaceous, but a little shining at the base ; their sides are (when 
not shrivelled) parallel ; the wings blackish. 
18. TELEPHORUS NOBILIS, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 9.) 
Nigro-subviridis, nitidus ; prothorace aurantiaco, maculis duabus 
nigris ; antennis fuscis, basi subtus ochraceis, elytris viridibus ad 
apicem acuminatis ; abdomine flavo, utrinque nigro-maculato. 
Long. 18-20 millim. <¢ Q. 
Hab. North China (coll. Gorham) ; Fuchau (Leech). 
This species is allied to 7. tmperialis, but is amply distinct. The 
head is shining, but is minutely punctured, the mandibles and palpi 
yellow, but partly pitchy ; the autennz are paler than in 7’. imperialis, 
and the second joint is only smooth above, the apical joint is quite 
pale. The thorax in the Fuchau examples (two in number) is of a 
fine orange-yellow, in the N. China specimen paler yellow; that of 
the female is wider and distinctly transverse ; the two spots as in 
T. imperialis. The elytra are very wide at the base, with very 
prominent shoulders: at this part and across the base they are 
very shining and metallic, beyond the middle they are finely and 
closely rugulose but more shining than in 7’. imperialis. The scu- 
tellum is of the greenish-black colour of the metasternum. The legs 
are bluish black with black tarsi. The abdomen is yellow, the first 
six segments with a black spot on each side. 
There is a specimen in Mr. Leech’s collection from Fuchau which 
is not only much smaller (about 15 millim.), but also differs in 
having a single discoidal patch on the thorax, and one in my own 
collection from North China has a subdivided discoidal patch and 
has blue elytra. These specimens bear therefore somewhat the same 
relation to 7’. nobilis that 7’. regalis does to 7’. imperialis and may 
possibly be distinct. 
19. TELEPHORUS REGALIS, Sp. Nov. 
Nigro-ceruleus, nitidus; prothorace flavo, subquadrato, disco nigro ; 
antennis subtus et ad apices ochraceis; abdomine nigro, opaco, 
luteo-limbato ; elytris ceruleis. 
Long. 18-22 millim. ¢ 9. 
Hab. China, Kiukiang (Pratt). 
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