88 ]Mr. Joseph S. Baly on the 
present genus are (altliongli often closely resembling 
European forms) extra European ; eight are peculiar to 
Japan ; seven are common to those islands and to the ad- 
jacent parts of the Asiatic continent. 
Cryptocepliahis trifasciatus, Fabr. 
SufFr. Lin. Ent. xiv. 12. 
Hab. — Nagasaki, also China; the specimens collected 
by INIr. Lewis are much brighter and less deeply marked 
Avith black than those that I possess from China. 
Crypto cephalus pcrelegans. 
Anguste oblongus, fulvus, nitldus, antennis extrorsum 
nigris, thorace piceo-fulvo, margine antico, vitta laterali, 
intns late emarginato, et utrinque vitta obliqua, ante basin 
]50sita, flavis ; elytris piceis, ibrtiter punctato-striatis ; 
utrisque pustulis octo, 3-2-2-1 positis, flavis ornatis. 
Long. If — 2 lin. 
Ilah. — Nagasaki. 
Head smooth, face flat, impunctate ; eyes elongate, 
broadly emarglnate ; antenna" slender, tAvo-thirds the length 
of the body, four lower joints fulvous, the fifth piceous, the 
rest black. Thorax twice as broad at the base as long ; 
basal margin concavely excavated on either side, basal 
lobe scarcely produced ; sides rounded at the base, thence 
obliquely converging to the apex, hinder angles produced 
posteriorly, acute ; above transversely convex, surface 
smooth, impunctate ; piceo-fulvous, the extreme basal 
border narrowly edged Avitli black ; a broad lateral vitta, 
deeply emarginatc within, and an oblique patch on either 
side at the base, together with the apical border, flavous ; 
these flavous markings are usually ill-defined. Scutellum 
subcordate, smooth, nigro-piceous, its disk fulvous. Elytra 
not Ijroadcr than the base of the thorax, sides moderately 
l()l)cd at the base ; above convex, thickened in the imme- 
diate neighbourhood of the scutellum, punctate-striatc, the 
])unctures large, piceous, interspaces convex ; stria? on the 
middle disk, below the humeral callus, irregular and ill- 
defined ; each elytron Avith eight yellow s]>ots, arranged as 
follows: three at the base attached to the basal margin, 
sometimes confluent, the first placed close to the si.ture, 
the second just Avithin the humeral callus, and the third 
on the outer margin (this last is sometimes obsolete) ; tAvo 
just before the middle, oblong, parallel, the inner one near 
