1888.] COLEOPTERA FROM KOREA. 



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of the elytra sharply bideutate. It agrees in colour with the var. 

 pyroclopus, Kraatz, but seems to differ from it and from all other 

 varieties of the si)ecies by the distinct but short and Hue tooth or 

 spine near the sutural apex of each elytron. 



COPTOLABRUS LEECHI. 



C. gehinii {Fairmaire) quoad formam similis, sed valde differt 

 elytris utrinque triseriatim breviternigro-tubereulatis tuberculis- 

 que (fere sicut in C. schreuckii, Motsch.) inter se annulo tenui 

 ovato concatenatis. Long. 37 milUm. $ . 

 Gensan ; one female example. 



This magnificent species in general form resembles a Damaster, 

 with the exception that the elytra are more ovate and convex, and 

 quite simple at the apex. The colour of the upper surface is rich 

 golden coppery, more brilhant (owing to the sparser sculpture) on 

 the head and thorax than on the elytra, which latter are very closely 

 rugulose-punctate, or more properly coarsely shagreened, the three 

 rows of rather short oblong tubercles, and a row of much smaller 

 ones between each pair and along the suture, being shining black. 

 The head, with the neck, is long and narrow, the labrum strongly 

 sinuated in the middle, the mandibles much elongated, and the 

 surface somewhat faintly punctulate and rugulose. The thorax is 

 narrow, at the apex not wider than the neck, moderately rounded in 

 the middle, and constricted before the base, the hind angles being 

 produced, but obtuse at their apices ; the surface is faintly and irregu- 

 larly transverse rugulose. The underside is violet-black and smooth ; 

 the underside of the head and prothorax, sides of breast and abdomen, 

 and the elytral epipleurse coppery violet. The legs, antennae, and 

 palpi are black. 



ScARiTES suLCATUS, Olivicr, Ent. iii. 36, p. 7, t. i. f. 11; Chau- 

 doir, Monogr. Scaritides (1880), p. 80. 



One example, taken at Gensan, of this well-known Indian species. 



Chl^enius costiger, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1856, iii. p. 258. 

 Distributed throughout Eastern China, from north to south ; Japan 

 and Formosa. 



Chl^nius virgulifer, Chaudoir, Monogr. des Chleniens, p. 61. 

 Also found throughout Eastern China. 



Chl^nius n^viger, Morawitz, Beitr. zur Kaferfaun. Ins. Jesso, 

 p. 33, t. i. f. 16. 



North China and Japan. 



ChljENIus hospes, Morawitz, I. c. p. 32, t. i. f. 15. 

 North China and Japan. 



Anisodactylus aiGNATUS, Illigcr, Kiif. Preuss. i. 1 74. 



Found throughout Europe and Siberia and in Japan. It appears 

 to be a common insect at Gensan. 



