1889.] COLEOPTERA. OF TBE FAMILY TELEPHORID^. 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- 

 fuscis ; elytris subviridibus granuloso-coriaceis, fere opacis ; 

 thorace subquadrato, disco Icevi haud canaliculato. 



Long. 9-1 1 millim. 



Hab. Andaman Islands {coll, Gorham ; Mus. Calcutta). 



Head fuscous, nearly black above ; gular portion, mouth, and 

 palpi yellow ; antennae 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. 



^ 13. Telephorus nicobarinus, sp. nov. 



Flavus; capite supra nigro-fusco, antennis corporis fere longitudine 

 subinfuscatis ; ore, palpis et parte yulari testaceis, elytris ob- 

 scure ccBrulis, geniculis tarsisque brunneis. 



Long. 9 millim. 



Hab. Nicobar Islands {Mus. Calcutta). 



Closely allied to T. insularis, and distinguished from it chiefly on 

 account of its smaller size and some differences in the coloration, 

 wliile at the same time the antennae 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 T, insularis peculiar to 

 the Nicobars. 



^ 14. Telephorus bieti, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 5.) 



Niffro-ceeruleus, nitidus ; py-othorace transversim subquadrato, 

 flavo, disco late nigro-ceeruleo, elytris subrugosis cupreo-violaceis, 

 antennis pedibusqiie niyris. 



Long. 15-17 millim. S 2- 



Hab. Thibet, Tatsienlou {F. Biet). 



Head wide, distinctly but finely punctured, the crown with a 

 longitudinal widely impressed channel, with an oblique fossa on each 

 side behind the antennae, 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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