3o0 ON NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS coLEOPTERA. [June 5, 



the present insect in Phyllobrotica ; it vf ill not be difficult to rerog- 

 iiize by the elytral pattern. A single specimen of the varietv was 

 obtaiuedj which differs only in colour. 



CneORANE FEMORALIS, D. Sp. 



Metallic blue ; the head, thorax, and the anterior legs fulvous ; 

 antennae fuscous ; elytra greenish blue, closely semirugose-punctate ; 

 below pubescent ; posterior femora obscure blackish blue. 



Length 4-4| lines. 



This species, obtained by Mr. Leech at Foochan, although very 

 closely allied to C. fulvicollis, Baly, seems to differ sufficiently to 

 be considered distinct from that species : the present insect is less 

 widened posteriorly, the antennae are entirely black, the basal joints 

 only are fulvous below ; the thorax is rather less transverse and 

 longer, and has often three small fovese placed triangularly on the 

 disk, the latter being entirely impunctate ; the punctuation of the 

 elytra is close and distinct, the interspaces being somewhat rugose 

 with traces of longitudinal ridges ; the colour of the upper part of 

 the breast as well as of the four anterior femora is fulvous ; the poste- 

 rior femora and the tibiae are obscure dark blue ; the rest of the under- 

 side is metallic lighter blue, clothed with long yellowish pubescence. 

 Tliere seems to be no difference in regard to the structure of the 

 antennae in both sexes, but the anterior tibiae in the male are curved 

 at the apex and their first tarsal joint is dilated and flattened. Mr. 

 Baly gives the colour of the underside in C . fulvicollis as piceous ; 

 in a specimen kindly given to me, the abdomen is dark metallic blue, 

 as in the present species, but this colour does not extend to the 

 breast as in O. femuralis ; the posterior femora in C. fulvicollis are 

 fulvous instead of dark blue. All the specimens agree in the above 

 details : C. elegans from Japan is much smaller, bright metallic 

 green, and the punctuation of the elytra is much finer ; the latter 

 in C. femoralis are of a rather dull bluish colour. 



Luperodes nigripennis, Motsch. 



Two specimens obtained at Gensan I refer to Motschulsky's species, 

 with the description of which they agree perfectly ; the head in the 

 specimens I have for examination is fulvous with the space immedi- 

 ately behind the eyes black (of this the author's description says 

 nothing) ; the labrum and the antennae are also black, with the excep- 

 tion of the first two joints of the latter, which are fulvous ; they are 

 nearly two thirds the length of the body ; the thorax is twice as broad 

 as long, fulvous, the surface impunctate without depressions ; the 

 elytra are black and very finely and closely punctured, with their 

 epipleurae extending below the middle ; the abdomen is flavous; the 

 legs are black, the apex of the femora and the base of the anterior 

 tibiae are stained with fulvous. The structural characters of Lupe- 

 rodes are all present. In the almost useless figure given by Mot- 

 schulsky the abdomen is made to protrude largely beyond the elytra ; 

 whether this is characteristic of all the females of this species I am 

 unable to say. 



