﻿244 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



COLEOPTEEA COLLECTED BY ME. PEATT ON THE UPPEE 

 YANG-TSZE, AND ON THE BOEDEES OP TIBET. 



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



(Concluded from p. 213). 



Family MELOLONTHID^B. 



Melolontha cuprescens, Blanchard, Comptes Rendu, Acad. 

 Sci., vol. lxxii. (1871), p. 811. 

 This metallic species of Melolontha was originally taken in 

 Moupin by the French missionaries. Mr. Pratt's example agrees 

 well as to colour and sculpture with Blanchard's short description. 

 It is a male, Blanchard's being apparently a female. The antennal 

 club (of black colour) is greatly elongated, three times the length 

 of the remaining (1 — -3) joints, approaching in this respect the 

 genus Polyphylla, and the pygidium is prolonged at the apex 

 nearly as in M. vulgaris $ . The elytral costse (five on each side, 

 including the sutural, the 4th much abbreviated anteriorly) ; two 

 subparallel wheals on the disk of the thorax, the occiput and the 

 legs are shining dark coppery ; the rest of the dark brassy brown 

 integument is clothed with very dense tawny-brown tomentum. 



Eucheirus parryi, Gray. 

 Chia-ting Fu. A single female specimen, agreeing with others 

 with which I have compared it from Darjeeling, except in the 

 much fewer reddish spots of the elytra. A rather large basal and 

 a subhumeral spot are seen in nearly the same position, and there 

 is a fine line running parallel to the suture, as in most examples 

 of E. parryi; but there is also a broadish submarginal vitta 

 extending from before the middle nearly to the apex, which I do 

 not see in the examples examined of the Himalayan species. 



Family BUTEL1TL3E. 



Anomala (Euchlora) truncata, n. sp. 



Kesembles A. viridis (Fab.), and A. martini (Hope), but the under-side 

 golden green (not coppery), with the legs, especially the tibiaa and tarsi, ruddy 

 golden. The upper surface differs also in being apple-green, with but slight 

 gloss, owing to the denser and rather stronger punctuation, which in places 

 coalesces and forms short transverse wrinkles. The scutellum, sides of the 

 head and thorax, and marginal rims of the elytra, are metallic, light golden 

 green. The elytra show faint traces of punctured striae, one sutural and two 

 pairs on the disk, but they are not strongly impressed as in A. martini. A 

 distinguishing character of the species is the strong oblique truncature of the 

 apices of the elytra, the lateral margins of which, distinctly flattened out to 

 the apical curvature, abruptly cease (without forming an angle), the rest of 

 the apical margin being straight and immai'ginate to the subobtuse sutural 

 angle. The pygidium is closely granulate-strigulose. The under-side of the 

 body is smooth in the middle, and densely punctulate and tawny pubescent 

 on the sides of the sterna and hind coxse, arcuate -punctate (and thinly 

 pubescent) on the sides of the ventral segments. Long. 21 — 25 millim. $ , ? . 



Chia-ting Fu. 



