﻿NEW SPECIES OE COLEOPTEKA FROM CHINA. 215 



Fern. Thorax nearly inipunctate, the two depressions deeper; elytra 

 with a lateral ridge below the middle. 



This Antipha has the same coloration as so many species of 

 Luperus, and the differences between the sexes are rather 

 considerable, as pointed out above. The flavous abdomen and 

 more elongate shape separates A. fiaviventris from its allies 

 inhabiting the same regions. 



Six specimens. 



Liroetes, Weise. 



The author, who lately has established this genus on a 

 species of Galeruca allied to Thyllobrotica, does not mention the 

 distinctly incrassate palpi, nor the length of the first joint of the 

 posterior tarsi, which is as long as the three following joints 

 together. Besides the typical form, L. ceneipennis, two other 

 species are contained in the present collection. 



Liroetes leechi, n. sp. 



Pale fulvous ; the vertex and the scutellum black ; thorax trifoveolate, 

 nearly impunctate ; elytra metallic green, closely and semi-rugose punctate, 

 the basal portion raised. Length, 4 lines. 



Closely allied to L. ceneipennis, Weise, but at once distinguished by the 

 black vertex of the head, and the more transversely-shaped thorax ; head 

 nearly impunctate, the vertex black, shining, the lower portion flavous ; the 

 clypeus in shape of a transverse swollen ridge ; palpi incrassate ; antennae 

 two-thirds the length of the body, flavous, the basal joint sometimes stained 

 with black above ; thorax rather more than twice as broad as long, the sides 

 nearly straight, the anterior angles rounded and thickened, the posterior ones 

 obliquely shaped, the surface impressed with some scarcely perceptible 

 punctures, flavous, the sides and the middle of the base with a more or less 

 distinct depression ; scutellum black ; elytra metallic green, very closely 

 punctured, the interstices slightly wrinkled, the basal portion distinctly 

 raised, the sides with an elongate broad depression, commencing below the 

 shoulders and not extending to the apex; elytral epipleurae extremely 

 narrow ; anterior coxal cavities open. 



The specimen, which I look upon as the male, has the 

 abdomen in a too shrivelled-up state to judge of its construction, 

 but there seems to be the same deep longitudinal cavity as is 

 found in L. ceneipennis. 



A single specimen. 



Liroetes fulvipennis, n. sp. (PI. II., fig. 2.) 



Reddish fulvous ; antennae and legs black ; head and thorax impunctate ; 

 elytra extremely finely punctured, the basal portion scarcely raised. 

 Length, 4 — 5 lines. 



Elongate, scarcely widened posteriorly ; the head inipunctate ; antennae 

 black, two- thirds the length of the body ; thorax twice as broad as long, 

 impunctate, the posterior angles oblique ; elytra minutely punctured, their 

 opipleivros extremely narrow ; legs black. 



Of this species many specimens were obtained. It agrees in 

 every respect with the type of the genus, and the male has the 

 same deep elongate cavity at the abdominal segments, the last 

 ending into a triangularly -shaped point ; the fourth segment has 



