1889.] COLEOPTERA OF THE FAMILY TELEPHORID^. 103 



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 antennae 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 

 eutirely 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 very;large 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. 



y 18. Telephorus nobilis, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 9.) 



Nigro-subvh'idis, nitidus ; prothorace aurantiaco, ?naculis duabus 

 nigris ; antennis fuscis, basi subtus ochraceis, elytris viridibus ad 

 apicem acuminatis ; abdominejlavo, utrinque nigro-maculato. 



Long. 18-20 millim. d ?• 



Hab. North China {coll. Gorhani) ; Fuchau {Leech). 



This species is allied to T. imperialis, but is amply distinct. The 

 head is shining, but is miimtely punctured, the mandibles and palpi 

 yellow, but partly pitchy ; the autennse are paler than in T. 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 T. 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 

 Laving 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 T. nobilis that T. regalis does to T. imperialis and may 

 possibly be distinct. 



19. Telephorus regalis, sp. nov. 



Nigro-cceruleus, nitidus i prothorace flavo, subquadrafo, disco niyro ; 



antennis subtus et ad apices ochraceis; abdomine nigro, opaco, 



luteo-limbato ; elytris cceruleis. 

 Long. 18-22 millim. c? ?• 

 Hab. China, Kiukiang {Pratt). 



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