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Differs from the type in size, darker colouring, and different 

 shape of the spot at outer angle of primaries. 



A nice series from Chang Yang, June and July. Ichang, 

 August. 



Var. albomaculata. 



Arrangement of markings as in "var. cliinensis," but spots almost 

 white ; secondaries muck paler, and with central spot and line very distinct. 

 Expanse, 48 mm. 



One female taken near Ichang in August. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF PHYTOPHAGOUS 

 COLEOPTERA RECEIVED BY MR. J. H. LEECH, FROM 

 CHANG- YANG, CHINA. 



By Martin Jacoby, F.E.S. 

 (Continued from p. 89.) 



DlORYCTUS VARIABILIS, n. Sp. 



Black ; the head, antennae, thorax and the legs fulvous ; elytra black, 

 extremely finely punctate-striate. 



Var. Head and thorax nearly black. Length 1 — 1£ line. 



Head with a few extremely fine punctures, visible only under a strong 

 lens ; eyes slightly but broadly emarginate, the emargination rounded ; 

 antennae entirely fulvous, short, the terminal joints lightly and gradually 

 thickened ; thorax of the same shape as in the preceding species, and 

 similarly coloured, entirely impunctate ; scutellum in-visible ; elytra with the 

 basal lobe scarcely produced, black, the punctured striae scarcely perceptible ; 

 legs fulvous ; prosternum much broader than long, its surface fiat without 

 anterior projection. 



This small species is similarly coloured as the preceding, but 

 differs totally from it in the nearly impunctate head and elytra, 

 their shape, and the structure of the prosternum ; the variety 

 does not seem to differ, except in its almost entirely black colour. 



AOEJA CHINENSIS, n. Sp. 



Fulvous, pubescent; the antennae (the basal joints excepted), the apex 

 of the femora and the tibiae, black; thorax coarsely punctured; elytra 

 depressed below the base, punctate-striate, the interstices more or less 

 costate. 



$ . Elytra more strongly costate. 



Var. Head or thorax black ; legs entirely fulvous. Length, 21 — 3 lines. 



A. chinensis, although closely allied to A. nigripes, Baly, and 

 A. bowiingii, is quite distinct; the head, which is either fulvous 

 or black, is closely punctured ; the antennae are black with the 

 exception of the lower four joints, which are fulvous, they extend 

 nearly to the end of the body ; the thorax is less globose than in 

 the allied species, more transverse in shape and has an obsolete 

 transverse depression at each side, the surface is coarsely 

 punctured and clothed with fulvous pubescence ; the elytra are 



