1889.] | COLEOPTERA OF THE FAMILY TELEPHORIDS. 111 
black, the sides a little contracted in front ; the disk deeply sulcate, 
tumid behind the middle on each side; the front margin and sides 
a little reflexed and often pitchy. LElytra distinctly costate, the 
humeral callus distinct and giving rise to one costa, between which 
and the suture are three coste, that which is next the callus being 
prolonged to near the apex. Their colour is a dull reddish brown, 
which is no doubt brighter in life, and is restored by wetting them. 
The body beneath is dull black, clothed with short greyish pubes- 
cence. The apical segment of the male appears only to differ from 
that of the female in being narrow, but cannot be well observed in 
dry specimens. 
This species has been known to me since 1863, when Mr. G. 
Lewis collected five specimens at Fuchau. The toothing of the 
claws of the female suggests affinity with Ancistronycha. I cannot 
at present, for want of more and sufficiently fresh specimens, deter- 
mine whether the same structure is found in L. serricornis and other 
species. If it should prove to be so, it would not warrant the placing 
of such abnormal insects in that genus. 
37. TELEPHORUS? sp. nov. 
A single example of a Telephorus from Fuchau, collected by 
Mr. Leech. 
38. Homatisus? sp. nov. ? 
A single example from Kiukiang (Pratt) possibly belongs to this 
genus: this insect has a strongly fossulate thorax, and costate and 
deeply punctured elytra. 
39. Srxts, sp. nov. ? 
Hab. Fuchau (Leech). 
Two examples of a small Si/is (6 millim.) with black body and 
elytra and red thorax, the sides of which are doubly and deeply 
incised, and its disk deeply fossulate. Not in sufficiently good condi- 
tion for study, the antenne being lost, &c. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE X, 
Fig.1. Telephorus khasianus, p. 97. ~ 
chalybeipennis, p. 96. 
prattianus, p. 105. 
. —— purpureipennis, p. 107. 
bieti, p. 101. 2 
insularis, p. 101. - 
celestis, p. 104. - 
—— imperialis, p. 102, ~ 
— nobilis, p. 103. : 
. Lycocerus serricornis, p. 109. 
caliginosus, p. 110. 4 
militaris, p. 110, 
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