﻿NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA FROM CHINA. 165 



so many closely-allied forms are concerned. The length of the 

 present species is lg- line. 



Luperus capito, Weise. 



Var. The head (the vertex excepted), thorax, and elytra and legs, 

 testaceous. 



Of this very variable little species, Weise has described four 

 varieties. A fifth is contained in this collection, together with 

 the typical form. In this variety the entire insect, with the 

 exception of the apical joints of the antennae and the vertex 

 of the head, is flavous or testaceous ; some specimens, showing 

 traces of the metallic blue colour of the elytra in the type, are 

 also before me. The description of the author agrees with my 

 specimens, with one exception, in regard to the anterior margin 

 of the thorax, which is described as being strongly concave ; in 

 the specimens from Chang-Yang, the same margin is nearly 

 straight. Apparently common. 



Luperus biplagiatus, n. sp. (Tab. II., fig. 10.) 



Flavous ; thorax transverse, minutely punctured ; elytra very finely 

 punctured in rows, each with a black or piceous spot near the apex. 

 Length, 1 line. 



Head with a few very fine punctures at the vertex, deeply transversely 

 grooved between the eyes ; frontal elevations transverse, strongly raised ; 

 antennae more than half the length of the body, flavous, the terminal joints 

 slightly darker and thicker, the third and fourth joints nearly equal, 

 elongate ; thorax transverse, twice as broad as long, the sides slightly 

 rounded at the middle, the angles slightly thickened, but not produced, the 

 surface very finely and not closely punctured, with two or three very 

 obsolete small depressions, flavous ; elytra closely and more distinctly 

 (though finely) punctured than the thorax, flavous, each with a piceous 

 ovate spot near the apex ; under side and legs flavous, the tibiae with a very 

 small spine; the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the three 

 following joints together ; claws appendiculate ; anterior coxal cavities open. 



This small species, although possessing the structural 

 characters of Luperus, differs from the more typical species of 

 that genus in the transversely-shaped thorax and the small tibial 

 spines; its size and coloration will distinguish it from its allies. 

 Numerous specimens were obtained. 



Galeruca (Adimonia) grisko-villosa, n. sp. 



Ovate, widened behind, dark fuscous or piceous ; above obscure 

 testaceous, finely pubescent ; head finely, thorax strongly, punctured, the 

 sides subangulate ; elytra very closely punctured without costse, clothed 

 with greyish long pubescence. Length, 2^ — 3 lines. 



Head rather broader than long, finely rugose-punctate throughout ; the 

 clypcus with a distinct longitudinal ridge, extending upwards between the 

 antennae ; palpi but slightly incrassate, the terminal joint acutely pointed ; 

 antennae filiform, extending to half the length of the elytra, black, the basal 

 joint testaceous below, the second one slightly shorter than any of the 

 following joints ; thorax transverse, about twice and a half as broad as long, 

 tho sides distinctly emarginato below the middle, the upper portion forming 



