380 MR. H. w. BATES ON [June 19, 



M^CHOTYPA FULiGiNOSA, Kolbe, Archiv f. Naturgesch. 1886, 

 p. 221,t. xi. f. 38. 



A northern representative of a tropical genus common to the Indian 

 and African regions. It is possibly the Tylophorus wulfussii of Blessig 

 (Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. ix. p. 245, t. vii. f. 3), but the description 

 does not fit in essential points. 



Agapanthia amurensis, Kraatz, Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1876, 

 p. 115. 



Found also on the Amur. 



Saperda gebleri, Falderm. Mem. Acad. Petrop. ii. (1835) 

 p. 434, t. 5. f. 6. 



Northern China and Korea. 



Oberea vittata, Blessig, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. ix. p. 255. 



Amur valley and Eastern Manchuria, according to Blessig. Mr. 

 Leech met with male examples only at Gensan. 



Oberea marginella. Bates, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xii. 

 (1873) p. 390. 



Found also in Japan. 



3. On some new Species of Coleoptera from Kiu-Kiang, 

 China. By H. W. Bates, F.R.S. 



[Eeceived June 9, 1888.] 



The following are descriptions of the new species of Cicindelidse 

 and Carabidse contained in the first arrivals from Mr. Leech's 

 collector (Mr. Pratt), who is now exploring, entomologically, the 

 valley of the Yang-tsze-Kiang. 



CiCINDELA LOBIPENNIS. 



C. ovipenni {Bates) affinis : differt, inter alia, elytrorum humeris 

 latins I'otundatis, npice utrinque lobato-productis. Fusco-cuprea, 

 opaca, labro virgulaque transversa elytrorum discoidali jlavis, 

 labro medio quadratim producto unidentato laterihus parum 

 sinuato : capite thorace latiore inter oculos concave longi- 

 tudinaliter striato, occipite vermiculato-rugoso : thorace fere 

 piano, quadrate, carina laterali verticaliter arcuata, tote 

 vermiculato-strigoso : elytris elongato-ovatis, lateribus acute 

 carinatis, epipleuris latis intus ebliquatis paullo ante apicem 

 terminatis ibique margine subito depresso, apice ipso producto, 

 quasi lobato : palpis antennisque basi viridi-ceneis. Prothoracis 

 episterna undique undulato-rugosa. Corpus subtus obscure viridi- 



