﻿214 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF PHYTOPHAGOUS 

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

 CHANG- YANG, CHINA. 



By Martin Jaooby, F.E.S. 

 (Concluded from p. 197.) 



Antipha varipennis, n. sp. (PL II., fig. 7.) 

 Ovate, widened posteriorly, black ; the head, thorax, and the anterior 

 legs testaceous ; elytra strongly punctured, testaceous, the sutural and 

 lateral margins metallic dark blue. Length, 2 lines. 



Var. Entirely dark blue or violaceous ; the head and thorax sometimes 

 margined with pale fulvous. 



Head impunctate, with a deep fovea between the eyes ; antennae rather 

 more than half the length of the body, black, slender, the second joint very 

 short, the third slightly shorter than the fourth joint; thorax narrowly 

 transverse, more than twice as broad as long, the surface rather convex, the 

 sides somewhat rounded, the angles slightly thickened but not produced, the 

 anterior ones rather oblique, the disc nearly impunctate ; scutellum black ; 

 elytra with a scarcely perceptible depression below the base, distinctly 

 punctured in closely approached rows, testaceous, the sutural margin 

 narrowly, and the lateral one more broadly, metallic bluish; under side 

 black ; legs more or less testaceous, the tibiae dark, unarmed ; anterior 

 coxal cavities closed. 



Of this species two forms are before me, which differ in no 

 other way from each other except in that of colour ; and although 

 I have taken the paler form for the type, there are as many speci- 

 mens of the darker variety contained in this collection. That 

 both really represent the same species is proved by those speci- 

 mens of the variety which show traces of the pale colour of the 

 type, either at the head, thorax, or elytra. From A. pretiosa, 

 Baly, and most of its allies, A. varipennis differs in the more 

 convex shape and rounded sides of the thorax, the black 

 antennae, and entirely or almost impunctate thorax ; the much 

 more transverse thorax and its rounded sides distinguishes the 

 species from A. puncticollis and its blue varieties. 



Numerous specimens of both forms. 



Antipha flaviventris, n. sp. 



Elongate, piceous below ; above metallic blue ; thorax strongly 

 punctured (<?), or nearly impunctate and bifoveolate (?); elytra closely 

 and strongly punctured ; abdomen flavous. Length, 2£ — 3 lines. 



Mas. Head smooth, impunctate, dark blue (sometimes with a fulvous 

 tint), frontal elevations transverse ; the clypeus strongly raised, triangular; 

 antennae half the length of the body, black, the fourth joint one-half longer 

 than the third, the terminal joints rather shorter and thicker ; thorax nearly 

 twice as broad as long, the sides straight, the angles tuberculiform, the 

 the surface with two foveae, rather strongly but sparingly punctured, the 

 punctures stronger within the depressions ; scutellum black ; elytra but 

 slightly widened posteriorly, without any depression below the base, dark 

 metallic blue, strongly punctured in closely approached rows ; under side 

 and legs piceous ; abdomen flavous or fulvous ; tibise unarmed, the first joint 

 of the posterior tarsi as long as the foil owing three joints together ; prosternum 

 distinct between the coxae ; anterior coxal cavities closed. 



