76 Mr. Joseph S. Baly on the 
infra basin transvcrsim excavatis, cyaneis, fascia lata, prope 
medium ]>osita, fulva, oruatis. 
Long. \i — 2 lin. 
Huh. — Xagasaki. 
Head shining black, the neck fulvous ; vertex smooth, 
impressed Avith a very short longitudinal groove. Thorax 
very slightly broader than long ; sides deeply constricted 
in the middle ; above convex, transversely grooved in front 
of the base, shining, very minutely and somewhat remotely 
punctured, the puncturing being visible only under a deep 
lens ; on the centre of the disk, however, is a longitudinal 
space, impressed with a double row of rather larger but 
still vei'y fine pimcturcs. Scutellum subtrigonate, fulvous, 
edged with piceous. Elytra much broader than the thorax, 
dce])ly and strongly punctate-striate ; on the middle third 
of the elytra is a broad common transverse fulvous fascia. 
ly Lema lO-punctata, Gebler. 
Lac. Mon. Phyt. i. 597. 
Ilab. — Japan. Common on the coasts, Avliere it is found 
on the tea plant ; also Northern China and Siberia. 
This species, unknown to Lacordaire, is a true Lama, 
and not a Criuccris, as suspected by that author. It varies 
greatly in the markings on the elytra ; they are sometimes 
nearly obsolete. 
Genus Ckioceris, Geoff. 
Lac. Mon. Phyt. i. 546. 
Four species of this genus are known from Japan ; two, 
riujata and parvicollls, are not up to the 23rescnt time found 
elsewhere ; the third, subjjolita, is common to Japan and 
Northern China, Avhilst the fourth, \^-punctato, is also 
found in Northern China, jNIantchuria, Siberia, and Eastern 
Europe. 
Crioccris rugata, Baly. 
Annals and ]\Iag. Nat. Hist. 1865, ]). 154. 
Hah. — Iliogo. 
^^ Crioceris parvlcoUis. 
Nigro-cuprca, nitida, femoribus basi, pectorc, abdomine- 
que rufo-fulvis, antemiis nigro-cyaneis, apicc nigris, thorace 
subquadrato, subcylindrico, lateribus modice constrictis. 
