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seen, a very peculiar character in the presence of a 

 double row of erect pubescence on each of the basal 

 three ventral plates. 



Euops is peculiar to the extreme East, where it 

 extends from Japan to Australia. The species are of 

 small size, but some of them of very beautiful colora- 

 tion.* 



Euops splendens. 



Attelabus (Euscelus ?) splendens, Eoelofs, Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Belg., xvii., p. 139. 



The female of this species possesses the curious double 

 ridges of pubescence on the middle ventral segments 

 that exist likewise in the same sex in the Australian 

 sj)ecies of the genus. The eyes are not quite contiguous 

 in E. splendens. Found on an oak ; is not rare. 



Euops lespedezce, n. s. 



Attelabus lespedezce, Lewis, Cat. Col. Jap., No. 1601 

 (not described). 



Niger, elytris violaceis, prothorace disco concentrice punctato, 

 elytris fortiter seriatim punctatis. Long. 3 — 3^ ram. 



The eyes in this species are not really contiguous, though at one 

 spot they are as closely approximated as possible ; the vertex is 

 coarsely punctate ; the prothorax is rather coarselj' punctured in 

 an irregular manner, the punctures on the disc being, as it were, 

 elongated and arranged around a median space ; there is a trans- 

 verse impression across the middle naore or less interrupted on the 

 disc, and the basal transverse groove is deep. The scutellum is 

 minute, viridescent. The elytra are of a beautiful dark violet 

 colour, and are deeply punctate with regular series of j)unctures, 

 which are deeper and coarser at the base than they are nearer to 

 the extremity. 



The sexual characters are the same as in E. splendens, 

 except that the front tibiae of the male are not so 



* The largest Euoj^s I have seen is E. tvallacei, n. s. $ . Laete 

 cyaneus, subtus viridi-cyaneus, valde convexus ; prothorace parce 

 punctato, elytris regulariter seriatim punctatis, interstitiis paulo 

 convexis. Long, (rostro deflexo) 5 mm. Hab. N. Guinea (A. R. 

 Wallace). Eyes contiguous, vertex subgibbous, club of antennae 

 elongate. Elytra of a very beautiful blue colom-, the sides just 

 behind the shoulders with an excessively minute acute prominence. 



