1889.] COLEOPTERA OF THE FAMILY TELEPHORID*. 



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Hab. India, KuUu {Mus. Calcutta), Koa Deyring ; Assam. 



Head broad and flat, very smooth and even, minutely punctured, 

 entirely yellow, apices of the mandibles pitchy ; antennae more than 

 half as long as the body, thin, and simple, pale luteous, with the 

 last four joints black. Thorax square, glabrous, yellow, without a 

 trace of a central channel, the front and sides not reflexed, the base 

 finely margined. Scutellum and the entire body beneath yellow ; 

 elytra brilliant steel-blue, closely and very finely punctured at the 

 shoulders, this sculpture gradually terminating in the fine wrinkles 

 which cover the surface. The elytra of this species (like those of 

 T. nepalensis. Gray) seem of a very delicate texture and easily 

 become shrivelled. Legs yellow with black tarsi. 



This insect is narrower than T. nepalensis and has the tibiae 

 yellow. 



2. Telephorus khasianus, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 1.) 



Flavus ; capitis hasi et macula duplicifrontali nigro-subviridihus, 

 prothorace disco nigra ; elytris viridibus creberrime granulatis, 

 apicibus tenuiter Jlavis. 



Long. 15-16 milHm. $ . 



Hab. India, Khasia Hills, 2000 feet elevation {Major Godwin- 

 Austen); Shillong. 



Head finely punctured and wrinkled, clypeus yellow, roughened 

 and irregular, behind the insertion of the antennae greenish and not 

 very shining, antennae entirely yellow. Thorax wider than long, 

 yellow excepting the disk, wliich is broadly black with a greenish 

 reflexion, sides and base reflexed. Legs yellow, front coxse a little 

 infuscate in front. Elytra rather dull, but beautiful green, owing 

 to the fine granulations, narrowed towards their tips, which are 

 yellow. Body beneath entirely yellow. 



Alhed to the Japanese T. vindipennis, Kiesen. Two specimens 

 in my own collection ; several examples in the Museum of Calcutta. 



/ 3. Telephorus versicolor, sp. nov. 



Luteus, tibiarum apicibus tarsisquefuscis; elytris oiolaxeo-ctBruleis, 

 tertia parte apicali luteis, grosse cribrato-punctatis, basi apice- 

 que Icevigalis. 



Long. 12 millim. 



Hab. India, Khasia Hills, 3000 feet elevation. 



Head and thorax luteous yellow; mouth, palpi, and two basal 

 joints of the antennae (the rest being lost) of the same colour, tips 

 of the mandibles infuscate. The thorax is nearly square and its 

 margins gently reflexed, both it and the head are impnnctate. 

 Elytra steel-blue at the base, passing into violet, the base is glabrous 

 beyond the shoulders, as far as the apical yellow portion coarsely and 

 cellularly punctate ; a few obsolete cells extend on the yellow apical 

 part, which is more than a third of their length. Scutellum yellow, 

 but metalhc blue at the base. Legs and underside yellow, apices of 

 the tibiae and the tarsi fuscous. 



