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



strong lens it is very closely and very finely punctured. The thorax 

 is longer than wide, very shining ; the disk is finely but deeply 

 channelled behind, the channel ending in a wide undefined depression. 

 The elytra are rough, each with two nervures rather distinct, their 

 bases (as usual in this section) a little shining. 



Specimens of this insect were given me many years ago by Mr. 

 Lewis, by whom they were captured at Fuchau ; it reminds one of 

 the European T. lividus. 



26. Telephorus (Ancistronycha) bartoni, sp. nov. 



Sordide ochraceus, parum nitidus ; capitis puncto, prothoracis disco 

 utrinque, macula lineari obliqua, antennis, palpis, femoribus 

 externe, tibiis tarsisque nigris. 



Long. 15-16 millim. $. 



Hub. North China (coll. Gorham), Kiukiang {Pratt). 



This is a more robustly built and wider species than T. orientalis. 

 The head and thorax are more pubescent and rougher, though 

 distinct punctures hardly exist, except on the clypeus. The thor.ax 

 is fully as wide as long (in large females perhaps a little wider), the 

 middle of the disk with a short but deep channel, on each side of 

 which it is widely tumid, the tumid part obliquely marked with 

 bluish black, the mark reaching close to the reflexed margin. 

 Scutellum yellow, but surrounded when exposed by darker mark- 

 ings ; elytra ochraceous, dull and more granulosely rough near their 

 apices. Legs robust and pubescent, black, but the underside of the 

 femora, the coxae and trochanters, and occasionally the tips of the 

 tibise are yellow. The abdomen is of a more sordid ochraceous 

 colour with the dorsal surface black, but the apical ventral segment 

 is clearer yellow. The antennae are black, with the underside of the 

 two basal joints yellow. 



Two or three specimens of this insect were sent me by Mr. S. 

 Barton and are labelled " N. China ; " about a dozen examples 

 were collected by Mr. A. E. Pratt at Kiukiang. 



27. Telephorus sinensis, sp. nov. 



Plumb eo-niger ; capitis fronte, prothorace (margine antica late et 

 macula discoidali haud bene discreta exceptis), femoribus basi, 

 coxis, trochanteribiis et corpore subtus fiavis. 



Long. 15 millim. S $ • 



Hab. Fuchau (G. Lewis), 



Head fuscous black, with the front and gular parts yellow, tips of 

 the mandible and palpi black ; antennae black, only the basal joint 

 yellowish at its base, almost as long as the body in both sexes ; eyes 

 very prominent, almost as in Podabrus. Thorax nearly square, in 

 the male a very little longer than wide, margins very little reflexed ; 

 the disk rather strongly tumid on each side of the central channel, 

 slightly pubescent ; yellow, with the front margin rounded and a 

 little raised, black, this colour following the form of the inserted 

 head, and with a very undefined central spot. Elytra dull fuscous 

 black, opaque. Legs fuscous black, the base of the thighs, coxae, 



