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may possibly belong to the subgenus Atylotus as it has hairy eyes, but 

 this species, determined by me, has no Atylotus-like appearance. 



1. Isshikia japonica, Bigot, (pi. II, tig. 9; pi. IX, figs. 1 3 & 14). 



C Higeiiaga— Saslii— Abu, or Isshiki-— Abu) 



Die hoe laeer a japonica, Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, V, p. 632, L892. 

 Matsumura, % fl yfc W 3& £" £> j£ fl> P« 70, 1914. 



Tabamts japonivus, Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7), XIV, p. 368, 1004; 



Rec. Ind. Mus., IV, p. 241, 1911 {Atylotus-}). 



Kertesz, Cat. Dipt., Ill, p. 252, iyo8. 



Female. Head conspicuously wider than the thorax, slightly 

 arched and rather short. Frontal stripe greyish yellow but becoming 

 more brownish orange about the lower half, narrow, distinctly contract- 

 ing from the upper part down to the front eye-angles, and nearly nine 

 times as long as its narrowest part or about four and a half times as long 

 as its widest part ; frontal triangle slightly elevated, black but entirety 

 obscured by a greyish dust, with rather broad somewhat hollowed out 

 double lunules which are distinctly dusted with yellowish, in the middle 

 there is a narrow longitudinal furrow which extends from the frontal 

 callus to the interval space between the antennae, and this furrow is 

 inconspicuous on the ridge between the lunules just above the antennae ; 

 frontal callus shining black long and very narrow, slightly but conspi- 

 cuously elevated, expanding about lower two-thirds of the frontal stripe 

 and its width occupying about the middle thirds but the lower part 

 slightly broader so that the callus occupies about the middle three- 

 fifth of the width, the both ends of the callus inconspicuously separated 

 by a fine longitudinal furrow; pubescence on the frontal stripe rather 

 sparse, short, blackish brown intermixed with a few yellowish white 

 hairs which are more short and more depressed, the blackish one is 

 sloping forwards but some backwards, while on the vertex the pubes- 

 cence is somewhat longer, and stouter, curved forwards and all blackish. 



