﻿NEW SPECIES OP COLEOPTERA PROM CHINA. 87 



Crypt ocephalus rectipennis, n. sp. 



Metallic dark blue ; the basal joints of the antennae and the anterior 

 femora fulvous ; thorax rather closely punctured ; elytra strongly punctate- 

 striate, the interstices more or less convex. 



<y . The lower portion of the head and the anterior angles of the thorax 

 flavous ; the elytral interstices rather convex and somewhat rugose. 5 . The 

 head and thorax unicolorous dark blue, the latter closely strigose-punctate. 

 Length, \ — \\ line. 



$ . Head with a few punctures, the vertex piceous, this colour projecting 

 into three points into the flavous portion of the lower part of the head ; eyes 

 not deeply emarginate ; palpi piceous ; antennae half the length of the body, 

 the five or six lower joints flavous, the rest fuscous, the third joint scarcely 

 longer than the second one ; thorax strongly transverse, the sides rather 

 rounded at the middle, the angles acutely pointed, the disc with a more or 

 less distinct transverse depression at each side, rather closely impressed with 

 elongate punctures, which are more numerous at the sides than at the disc ; 

 scutellum black, slightly raised ; elytra without distinct lateral lobe, rather 

 flattened, strongly punctate-striate, the interstices convex at the sides and 

 somewhat rugose, the shoulders raised, narrow ; under side and legs nearly 

 black, the four anterior femora and the prosternum fulvous. 



This small species, of which several specimens are contained 

 in this collection, seems allied to G. piimilio, Suffr., but is, I 

 think, distinct from that species ; its colour is not blackish green 

 but dark blue : the thorax has closely placed and elongate punc- 

 tures, which in the female insect almost occupy the entire sides, 

 forming strigae ; the sculpture of the elytra also differs apparently 

 from G. pumilio, as the interstices are distinctly raised at the 

 sides in G. rectipennis and irregularly wrinkled. 



Crypt ocephalus nigrolimbatus, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. G.) 

 Below black, above pale flavous ; antennae black, the basal four joints 

 fulvous ; thorax impunctate ; elytra strongly punctate-striate, narrowly 

 margined with black ; legs fulvous. Length, lh — 2 lines. 



Head impunctate, shining, flavous ; eyes moderately deeply notched ; 

 epistome separated from the face by a deep oblique groove ; antennas two- 

 thirds the length of the body, the basal four joints fulvous, the rest black ; 

 thorax narrowly transverse, the sides slightly rounded, very narrowly mar- 

 gined, the surface entirely impunctate, shining, flavous, the extreme basal 

 margin black ; scutellum flavous, margined with black ; elytra deeply 

 punctate-striate, the punctures visible to the apex but finer, the interstices 

 smooth, scarcely raised, flavous, the extreme sutural and lateral margins, 

 and the epipleurae partly, black ; pygidiurn flavous ; under side black, pro- 

 sternum flavous ; the last abdominal segment in the female flavous, with a 

 deep oblong fovea. 



The black under side and similarly coloured narrow elytral 

 margins distinguish C. nigrolimbatus from C. pini, C. hecticus, 

 Fab., and other unicolorous species : the female specimens are 

 considerably larger than the male, but do not differ in any 

 important way. 



A small number of specimens. 



Cryptocephalus nasutulus, Weise. 

 Several specimens agreeing closely with the author's descrip- 

 tion were obtained. I must, however, add that the thorax in all 



