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the second and third are much abbreviated behind. In 
colour the elytra are chestnut-red, like the thorax, but 
there is a large pale spot near each shoulder, and a trans- 
verse one towards the apex, which are not shai*ply defined 
from the ground colour; and the extreme apex is dingy- 
brown, though glossy, this latter colour sometimes re- 
mounting up the sides of the elytra. 
Allied to T. ornatus and Scydmanoidcs (Nietn.) of 
Ceylon, but distinguished by its three punctured strife. 
T. ScydmcBno'ides was taken by Mr. Lewis at Kiu-Kiang 
on the Yang-tze, in China ; it appears to be closely allied 
to T. geminatus (Schaum), from Celebes. 
T. perlutus, n. sp. 
Breviter oblongo-ovatus, convexus, flavo-testaceus niti- 
dus; frontis sulcis angustis distantibus postice divergen- 
tibus ; thorace valde transverso, antice valde, postice minime 
angustato, lineis impressis obsoletis, angulis posticis rectis ; 
elytris stria suturali solum impressa, subtili, stria 8^" antice 
obsoleta. 
Long. § — I lin. 
Nagasaki ; many examples. 
Allied to T. globulus {T>G].) 0^ A\^\ev^\ but less con- 
vex, and entirely pale yellow-testaceous, with the excep- 
tion of the apical part of the antenna, which is pale broAvn. 
It differs also in having only the sutural stria visible, and 
that finely impressed ; the disk does not show the usual 
punctures. The recurved stride is fine and curved, and 
is in the situation of the apex of the third stria. The 
anterior tibife are slender, very obliquely truncated ex- 
ternally at the apex, and furnished with setre at the upper 
angle of the truncature. The species is very closely allied 
to Bemb. ovatum, W. Macleay ; Queensland. 
Tachyta microscojnca, n. sp. 
Oblongo-ovata, depressa, rufo-testacea, nitida, capite 
postice elytrisque fuscis ; antennis pedibusque pallidis ; 
thorace cordato-quadrato, convexiusculo, angulis posticis 
rectis ; elytris juxta suturam depressis, stria suturali solum 
et fortiter impressa, disco bipunctato, striola recurva, fo- 
veola superiori except^, obsoleta. 
Long, fere -i line. 
Nagasaki ; many examples. 
Very closely allied to T. livida. Bates (Ent. Monthly 
Mag. vol. viii. p. 13), from Adelaide and Melbourne : 
