108 REV. H. s. GORHAM ON NEW [Mar. 5, 



articulis duobus primis prcetermissis, pectore et abdominis 

 segmentis quinque ventralibus in medio fuscis. 



Long. 12-13 millim. cS 2 • 



Hab. China, Kiukiang {Pratt). 



The head in this species is broad and not mnch narrowed behind, 

 the eyes are prominent, the front and gular part are yellow, the 

 basal half and cheeks black. There is a deep fossa between the 

 antennae, the latter are fuscous but yellowish beneath, and two joints 

 at the base are entirely yellow. Thorax small, square, with aii 

 irregular impression in the centre of the disk. Scutellum blackish 

 or fuscous, becoming yellowish at its apex. Elytra bronzy green or 

 leaden, rather shining, subrugose. Legs yellow. Breast fuscous. 

 Abdomen fuscous on the dorsal side, margined with the yellow 

 colour of the underside, of which only the middle of each of the first 

 five segments has an infuscate cloud. 



Several specimens of each sex. 



31. Telephorus? flavicornis, sp. nov. 



Flavus ; capite et genis nigris, pectore abdomineque fuscis, elytris 

 subviolaceis. 



Long. 9 millim. 



Hab. Fuchau, China. 



Front and gular part of the head, antennae, and palpi clear luteous 

 yellow : the antennee three fourths of the length of the body, the 

 basal joints from the second to the eighth compressed, and from the 

 fourth to the eighth having their (inner ?) edge a little produced at 

 the apex, the eighth itself having this part produced so as to form a 

 small spur, the three terminal joints simple ; all the joints, except 

 the very short second, elongate. Head wide across the eyes, much 

 narrowed behind, punctured obsoletely and uneven, the basal part 

 black. Thorax yellow, once and a half as long as wide, uneven, the 

 sides deflexed. Elytra dark violaceous, nearly black. Legs yellow, 

 tarsi long, faintly fuscous at the tips ; claw-joint thin and long, claws 

 simple. 



A single specimen of this curious insect taken by Mr. G. Lewis at 

 Fuchau, and given to me. 



Lycocerus, genus novum. 



Corpus Lyciforme, supra breviter pubescens. Antennae ultra 

 articulum secundum compressce, serratce, articulis sexto ad 

 undecimum sensim attenuatis. Palpi sicut in Telephoro. Pro- 

 thorax lateribus haud marginatis vel reflexis. Elytra mollia, 

 obsolete costata, sqiiamose pubescentia. Ungues simplices. 

 This new genus is very difficult to characterize. The insects for 

 which I propose the name are true Telephorids, but have very much 

 the appearance of Lycidce, especially of the genus Calochromus. 

 The head is exserted, but yet seems in close connection with the 

 thorax. The latter is very different to that of any Telephorid known 

 to me, the sides not being margined or expanded, narrowed from the 

 base (in all the three species known to me), and clothed with a fine 



