﻿THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XXIIL] JULY, 1890. [No. 326. 



COLEOPTEEA COLLECTED BY MR. PRATT ON THE UPPER 



YANG-TSZE, AND ON THE BORDERS OF TIBET. 



By H. W. Bates, F.R.S., F.L.S. 



The following is a list, with descriptions of new species, of 

 the Coleoptera belonging to the three sections Geodephaga, 

 Laniellicornia, and Longicornia, lately received by Mr. Leech, 

 from his collector Mr. Pratt, in the interior of China. The 

 greater number were collected at Chia-Ting-Fu, on the Min River, 

 a tributary of the Yang-tsze, near the eastern border of Tibet 

 and on the Wa-shan mountains, fifty miles south-west of that 

 city. The two localities are near Mou-pin, a district in which 

 French missionaries have long been settled, and whence numerous 

 collections have been received in Paris and described by French 

 entomologists. Many of the most striking forms enumerated in the 

 following list are consequently already known, though until now 

 wanting in English collections. 



Family CICINDELID^E. 



ClCINDELA JAPANENSIS, CllClUcloir. 



Ichang. Found also near Fu-chau. 



The examples sent are intermediate between the typical C. 

 japanensis of Nipon and the form G. maritima of the widely-distri- 

 buted C. hybrida. They differ from the Japanese species in the 

 reddish coppery colour of the upper surface, though they agree with 

 it in the subparallel form and rather fine granulation, and in colour 

 of under-side and legs. The middle fascia of the elytra is less bent 

 towards the apex, and the humeral lunule is generally entire, 

 though sometimes interrupted. 



ClCINDELA STJMATRENSIS, Herbst. 



Ichang. 



Family CAKABID/E. 



Necria pulcherrima, Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 236. 

 Ichang. Found also in Japan, and constant in its coloration, 



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