270 MR. G. J. ARROW ON THE MELOLONTHINE 



4-tuberculato, lateribus arc.ua.tis, medio vix angulatis, angulis 

 anticis acutis, posticis obsoletis ; scutello sat minuto, acuminata ; 

 elytris quam prothorace multo latioribus, deplanatis ; pedibus 

 gracilibus, posticorum ungue integro : 



S , tibia antica elongate , minute tridentata ; 



$ , tibia lata, fortiter tridentata. 



Long. 8"5-9"5 mm. ; lat. max. 4 - 5 mm. 



Hob. S. China: Fo-kien. 



This belongs to the group in which the claw of the hind tarsus 

 is not cleft at the tip. It is a little more slenderly built than 

 most of that group, darker in the colour of the upper surface, 

 without definite pattern upon the thorax and with the elytral 

 pattern reduced. Sometimes, as in E. dbducta and suturalis, the 

 paler scales are entirely wanting above and the surface a uniform 

 blackish brown. As in E. A-titbe?-cidata, the pronotum bears 

 four tubercular elevations in a transverse straight line across the 

 middle, but that species is quite different in its surface, being 

 almost covered by pale scales. In E\ inscripta these pale scales 

 are of two similar shades intermixed, but they are scattered upon 

 the pronotum and consist upon the elytra of a fine marginal line 

 and three narrow incomplete transverse bands. 



Ectinohoplia soror, sp. n. (Plate I. fig. 2.) 



Nigra, corpore subtus, propygidio, pygidio, femorisque postici 

 parte majore dense sulphureo-squamosis, pronoti margine (postice 

 medio interrupto), linea angusta mediana maculaque parva 

 utrinque, scutello, ely trorum margine angusto (basi excepto), 

 fasciis tribus transversis, prima posthumerali recta, secunda 

 mediana, tertia anteapicali, biarcuatis, lineisque tribus exig'uis 

 longitudinalibus, femoribns anticis et intermediis sat dense, 

 capitis fronte, tibiis, tarsis, femorumque posticorum extremita- 

 tibus disperse argenteo-cceruleo-squamosis ; sat elongata, capite 

 rugoso, ctypeo semicirculari ; pronoto quam longiori panlo 

 latiori, lateribus medio angulatis, antice et postice valde con- 

 ti-actis, angulis anticis acutis, posticis obtusis ; scutello minuto ; 

 elytris quam prothorace latioribus, dorso deplanato, ad sutura? 

 finem longe setosis ; pygidio parce setoso ; pedibus longissimis, 

 posticorum ungue integro : 



<3 , tibia antica. dentibus tribus minutis, approximatis armatis, 

 posticis compressis, basi excepto valde dilatis, abdomine subtus 

 fortiter curvato. 



Long. 11 mm. ; lat. max. 5 mm. 



Hab. 0. China (Fo-kien): Kuatun. 



Very closely related to E. latipes and with the legs exactly as 

 in that species. It is a little less elongated, and the sides of the 

 prothorax are a little more sharply angulated in the middle. The 

 scaly clothing of the propygidium, pygidium, lower surface, and 

 legs is identical, as well as the yellow pattern of the pronotum. 

 The elytral pattern is almost the same as in E. variegata De 

 Borre, There are three well-marked transverse bars, the first 



