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sterno, abdominisque segmentis \ Sf 2 teneo-maculatis ; pedihus rufo-piceis, 

 geniculis tarsisque nigro-aeneis. Gapite sat dense piinctato. Thorace 

 lo7igitudine latitudine ceqitante, antice angustato, ante angulos posticos 

 constricto, per-convexo, postice transvet'sim impresso, sat dense et distincte 

 punctata, laterihus rotundatis, angulis anticis prominulis, ritjis, posticis 

 acutiusculis. ScutelJo Icevi. JEJytris apicem versus angustatis, apice 

 rotundatis, striato-punctatis, interstitiis suhtilius seriatim punctulatis. 



L. c. 4| lin. ; lat. 1\ lin. 



Closely allied to the preceding, but at once distinguislied by its 

 convex thorax, which is the same width as the base of the elytra, dis- 

 tinctly narrowed in front and before the posterior angles, the sides 

 much and evenly rounded, distinctly narrower at the posterior angles 

 than across the middle ; the anterior angles also are a trifle more pro- 

 minent than in either of the preceding. 



Hakodate. One example. Coll. Gr. Lewis. 



C. O. Wateriiouse. 

 British Museum : December \lth, 1872. 



Suh-fam. II. EBOTTLIDES. 



Trih. I. Dacnini. 



Genus Dacne, Latr. 

 D. JAPONicA, sp. n. 



Oblonga, rufo-Jerriiginea, elytris nigris, fascia communi fulvci, hu- 

 meris maculdque denticulatd scuteUari nigris ; capite tdioraceque fortius 

 punctafis ; scutello rufo, punctulato ; elytris siob-seriatim, lateribus con- 

 fuse sat crehre punctatis. L. c. If — 2 lin. 



Nagasaki, in fungi on trees. 



D. PicTA, sp. n. 



D. jnponiccB p)roxima, sed minor, antennis hreviorihus, clavd valde 

 transversa, tarsis hreviorihus, thoracis disco late nigro, elytris fascia 

 prope basin fulvd utrinque interruptd notatis. L. c. \\ lin. 



Distributed throughout the islands. 



Genus Episcapha, Lac. 



E. FoETUNii, sp. n. 



Nigra, oblonga, tenuissime pubescens, sparse haud prof unde punctata, 

 thorace sub-transverso, lateribus marginato, basi bisinuato ; elytris haud 

 seriatim jjunctatis, singulis annulo humerali cum processu hamato suturam 

 versus, fascidque multidentatd et sub-arcuatd infra medium, rufo-san- 

 guineis. L. c. 8 lin. 



Hiogo, in fungi on firs, in great profusion. China (Fortune). 



