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each other; antennae 20-jointed, stout, with short pubescence, monili- 

 form at apex (5 apical joints); scape punctured, as broad as long; 

 fourth joint about 5 times as long as broad; fifth a little shorter; the 

 others successively shorter to the penultimate which is a very little 

 longer than broad; last joint ovate, a little longer. 



Mesonotum shining, finely hairy, sparsely punctured ; parapsidal 

 furrows fine, rather shallow, parallel, not reaching more than half the 

 length of the sclerite ; prescutellar fovea rather deep with raised trans- 

 verse lines at its bottom ; scutellum subtriangular, proturberent, shining, 

 sparsely, finely punctured ; mesopleura shining, with fine 3cattered punc- 

 tures ,the anterior and posterior marginal sulci consute. Basal area of 

 propodeum trapezoidal with about 15 punctiform pits occupying its 

 surface ; petiolar area strongly concave, reticulate above transversely 

 ridged below ; external areas smooth basally, reticulate along the costula ; 

 dentiparal area more or less irregularly reticulate ; spiracular area reti- 

 culate, the spiracles small ; pleural areas transversely striate or s ulcate, 

 reticulate next the coxae. 



Post petiole somewhat aciculate, the spiracles a little nearer the apex 

 than to each other; remainder of abdomen smooth, shininsj and highly 

 polished ; ungues slender, elongate ; subdiscoidal nerve ansmg from the 

 middle of the nervellus ; subdiscoidal nerve of hind wing arisnig far 

 below the middle of the nervellus. 



Described from one $ bred froiu the pu])ariniii of an niide- 

 terniined species of Sorcopliar/a living in decayiiig fi^li nsed 

 a.s fertilizer in the tield. Okitsu, Ja]ian, Jan. 10l;5. (F. ]\[uir). 

 Type in the author's collection. 



2. Atractodes Maliyi n. sp. 



Very similar to A. Miiiri. 



Mandibles entirely black; 2d joint of trochanter black; *:fth segment 

 of abdomen dark ; the coloration otherwise as in Muiri. 



Anterior margin of clypeus not depressed, a little produced in the 

 middle, smooth and shining at apex ; front and vertex very highly 

 polished and shining, with only a few scattered minute punctures ; ulti- 

 mate joints of antennae not so distinctly moniliform. 



Mesonotum more highly polished and shining; the parapsidal fur- 

 rows more distinct, reaching farther to the rear, punctures minute, in- 

 distinct, scattered ; median elevated area of metanotum ti ifid in front 

 (simple in Muiri) ; sides of pronotum imperfectly striate (only the pos- 

 terior margin consute in Muiri) ; basal area of propodeum transverse, 

 irregularly rugose or shagreened. 



Spiracles of first tergite about as far from each otiier as from the 

 apex, post petiole less expanded. 



