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obsolete) tubercle. The elytra have each seven impressed 
strize and three rows of punctures at the sides. 
Hab.—Japan; Nagasaki and Corea. 
A Geotrupes (Phelotrupes) levistriatus, Motsch. 
The colour of this insect is generally eeneous, but it is 
sometimes purple-blue or blue. The depth of the striz 
varies much, and the form in which they are very slightly 
impressed and scarcely punctured, from which the species 
derives its name, is less common than those in which the 
strize are more deeply impressed. 
The ¢ of this species is easily recognized by the single 
strong tooth on the under side near the base of the anterior 
tibia. 
Hab.—Japan and Celebes. 
Vv Geotrupes (Phelotrupes) auratus, Motsch. 
Hab.—Japan and Tartary. 
Geotrupes (Phelotrupes) purpurascens, sp. nov. 
Latus, leviter convexus, nitidus, purpurascens, cupreo- 
micans. Thorace longitudine duplo latiori, convexo, pone 
medium ampliato, ad latera fortiter punctato, angulis 
anticis obtusis, lateribus fortiter rotundatis, angulis pos- 
ticis obtusis. Scutello levi. Elytris thorace vix duplo 
longioribus, 13-striatis, striis septem dorsalibus sat fortiter 
impressis, punctatis, interstitiis convexis; marginibus 
reflexis. Corpore subtus pedibusque viridi-aureis. 
6. Tibiis anticis extus 7-dentatis, subtus dentibus 
quinque armatis. Femoribus posterioribus dente forte 
armatis. 
@. Tibiis anticis subtus obsolete tri-nodosis. Femoribus 
simplicibus. 
Long. 9—10 lin.; lat. 5—53 lin. 
This species, which I separate very reluctantly from 
G. auratus, Motsch., differs from that insect in being of a 
dull purple colour, with the margins of the thorax and 
elytra and the striz of the latter bright coppery. The 
thorax is broader than the elytra, slightly angulated behind 
the middle, whilst in G. auratus the thorax is only as 
broad as the elytra, and evenly rounded at the sides, and 
the colour is a uniform bright coppery. 
Hab.—Japan (Hakodadi and Yokohama); Celebes, 
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