Lamellicorn Coleoptera of Japan. 107 
titer punctato, longitudine duplo latiori, lateribus post 
medium leviter sinuatis; angulis anticis obtusiusculis, 
posticis fere rectis; basi marginato, dorso antice leviter 
canaliculato. Scutello semicirculari, fortiter punctato. 
Klytris thorace paulo latioribus, parallelis, singulis ad 
apicem rotundatis testaceis, sutura marginibusque piceis, 
superne subtiliter striato-punctatis, ad apicem leevibus. 
Antennis piceo-testaceis, articulis 3, 4, 5 subsequalibus, 
clava elongataé. Tibiis anticis extus bidentatis; tarsis 
longis, presertim posticis. 
Long. 32 lin.; lat. 14 lin. 
Var. Elytris marginibus late piceis. 
The following I have no doubt is the ¢ of this species, 
although the form is very different. 
2. Statura Ph. horticole, at brevior. ‘horace canali- 
cula impressa utrinque foveolato. Llytris subtiliter striato- 
punctatis, interstitio suturali irregulariter punctulato. 
Long. 4 lin.; lat. 23 lin. 
Variat; thorace nigro, vel testaceo maculis quatuor 
nigris. Hlytris testaceis vel piceis. 
Hab.— Nagasaki, in May. 
VY Phyllopertha irregularis, sp.nov. (Pl. III. fig. 4.) 
Ph. horticole affinis. Viridis (vel cuprea), breviter 
griseo-hirta. Capite thoraceque statura Ph. horticole, 
at hoc punctulato ut in horticola ¢. Scutello breviori, 
semicirculari, erebre punctato. Elytris paulo longioribus, 
parum convexis, testaceis, sutura marginibusque eeneis. 
Antennis piceis, clava prelonga, nigra. ¢. 
Long. 43 lin.; lat. 23 lin. 
Fem.—Antennarum clava breviori, corpere crassiori, 
thorace crebre fortius punctato. 
Var. Testacea; fronte, thoracis disco, scutelli lateribus 
viridibus. 
From the above description it will be seen that this 
species differs from Ph. horticola besides the colouration 
in having the club of the antennze much longer, the punc- 
tuation of the thorax is closer, and the elytra longer. 
Having only seen two specimens of this species I am not 
able to say what is the usual sculpture of the elytra. In 
the male above described they are not striated but are 
slichtly rugulose, but in the female they are somewhat 
delicately punctured, the punctures forming lines near the 
suture. Lhe club of the antenne in the ? is as long as 
