90 jNIr. Jo.-^cpli S. Billy on the 
Var. A. Elytrls nigris, raarginc cxtcriori angusto vitta- 
que communi, postice aiigustata, ante apiccm abbreviatti, 
piceo-fulva. 
Long. 2 Hn. 
Ilab. — Hiogo, on oak. 
Head coarsely but not closely punctured ; face flat ; 
three lower joints pale fulvous, the rest black ; antennae 
three-fourths the length of the body. Thorax convex, 
snbcylindrical when seen from above, sides converging and 
slightly I'oundcd from base to apex ; surface very shining, 
stained with piceous. Elytra subquadrate-oblong, sides 
slightly lobed at the base ; slirface distinctly punctate- 
striate, interspaces smooth, convex. 
Cyyptocephalus pilosus. 
Oblongus, convexus, grisco-pilosus, subtus nigro-viridis, 
niotallicus, epipleuris pedibus(]ue viridi-metallicis ; supra 
la'te viridi-metallicus, ore rufo-fulvo : antennis nigris, 
basi fulvis ; thorace convcxo, ante basin transversim 
cxcavato, subcrebre pimctato, punctis oblongis ; elytris 
fortiter subscriatim ])unctatis, punctis piceis ; utrisque 
limbo angusto inaculisque tribus (2-1 dispositis) viridi- 
metallicis. 
Long. 2\ lin. 
Jlab. — Japan, also China; collected in bolli localities 
by j\Ir. Lewis. 
Plead distinctly l)ut not closely punctiu'cd ; face plain, 
clothed with long adprcsscd griseous hairs ; eyes broadly 
cmarginate ; antenna? slender, filiform, basal joint stained 
■with metallic green ; its inider surface, together with the 
Avhole of the three following joints, obscure fulvous. Tliorax 
scarcely twice as broad at the base as long ; sides regularly 
rounded and converging from base to apex; above convex, 
transversely excavated in front of the scutcllum, somc- 
■what sparingly clothed with short decumbent hairs; disk 
rather deeply impressed Avith oblong ])unctures. Scu- 
tcllum trigonate, deeply punctured. Elytra scarcely 
broader than the base of the thorax, quadrate-oblong ; 
sides feebly lobed at the base ; above convex, thickened in 
the immediate neighbourhood of the scutcllum, clothed 
Avith suberect hairs; rufo-fulvous, strongly ])unctured, the 
])nnftures piceous, irregularly arranged in ill-defined longi- 
liidiiKil rows (about ten in nnmbcr), the intersj)aces also 
])uncturcd; each elytron witli the entire limb and three 
