104 REV. H. S. GORHAM ON NEW [Mar. 5, 



This species is very closely allied to T. imperialis, and indeed at 

 first sight only differs from it in having the disk of the thorax with 

 a black patch of irregular shape, indented in front and at each of its 

 hinder angles. It will, however, be found, I believe, to be distinct ; it 

 is rather smaller and narrower, and upon dissection of the male the 

 genitalia are found to be dark in colour, and the lateral styles 

 (sagittse) more widely separated, wider and more hamate. These are 

 differences which are recondite, and do not properly come within the 

 scope of the present paper. About half a dozen specimens of this 

 insect were collected by Mr. Pratt. 



^ 20. Telephorus leechiantjs, sp. nov. 



Flavus ; capite supra {fronte exceptd) nigro-ccBruleo ; 2)rothoracis 

 disco, femoruni apicibus geniculisque nigris ; elytris viridibus, 

 basi micantibus : scutello nigra. 



Long. 17-18 millim. S ?• 



Hab. Kiukiang {Pratt). 



Head above behind the iusertiou of the antennae blue-black, 

 smooth, with only minute punctures which are furnished with short 

 hairs ; front of the head, antennae, and palpi yellow, tips of the man- 

 dibles pitchy. Thorax quadrate, yellow, with a nearly round, not 

 very large, discoidal black patch. Legs and body beneath entirely 

 yellow, excepting that about a third of the femora at the knees and 

 the extreme base of the tibiae are black. The elytra are bright 

 green, finely granulate, very shining at their bases. 



Var. 1 Thorax with two almost united black spots ; elytra blue. 



Hab. " North China" {coll. Gorham). 



This is possibly identical with T. viridipennis, Kiesen., from Japan. 



21. Telephorus leechianus, var. ^neipennis. 



Major, Intior ; elytris ceneis, abdomine fusco testaceo-marginato. 



Hab. Kiukiang {Pratt). 



This insect, of which I have only seen one specimen, only differs 

 from T. leechianus in having the elytra brassy, less shining at the 

 base, the head quite black at the base instead of being blue-black. 



^ 22. Telephorus ccelestis, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 7.) 



Badius ; femorum apicibus, tibiis {duabus posterioribus exceptis) 

 tarsisque 7iigris ; elytris ItBte cceruleis, nitidis. 



Long. 14-18 millim. S $• 



Hab. Kiukiang {Pratt). 



Head entirely bright chestnut-yellow, only the tips of the mandibles 

 pitchy, antennae yellow. Thorax square, that of the male a little 

 narrower in front than at the base, entirely yellow. Scutellum, 

 body, and legs yellow, with the exception of the tips of the 

 femora, the tibiae and tarsi of the anterior and intermediate pairs, 

 and the tips of the tibiae and tarsi of the posterior legs, which are 

 black. Elytra bright azure-blue, finely rugulose, but shining through- 

 out. 



