Geodephagous CoteojJtera of Japan. 30^ 
deep and smooth, and tlie anterior angles dip to the sides 
of the neck, to which they are closely applied. 
Group. 7. Truncatipennes. 
Section EleutheroglosscB. 
Subfam. OoACANTHINiE. 
Ophionea cyanocephala, Fab. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 60. 
Nagasaki ; common in fenny districts ; China ; India. 
Japanese specimens do not differ from those of Hong 
Kong and Bengal. 
Casnonia Jlavicauda, n. sp. 
C. latifascicB (Chaud.) simillima; differt elytris apicc 
testaceo-fulvis. Nigro-fnsca nitida, antennis articulis 3 
basalibus, palpis, pedibus, elytrorumque macula magna 
apicali antice ad suturam emarginata, testaceo-fulvis; 
capite intra oculos solum (grosse) punctato, thorace grosae 
hand confertim punctato ; elytris fortiter puuctato-striatis. 
Long. 3— 3i lin. 
Osaka. Also Foochow, China. Many examples. 
The head is convex, and gradually narrowed behind the 
eyes. The thorax is broadest in the middle, gradually 
narrowed anteriorly, and rather more suddenly so pos- 
teriorly to the basal transverse groove. The apical spot 
of the elytra generally covers the apical third, but deejjly 
emarginated in front on the suture ; but sometimes the 
sutural emargination continues to the apex, and in rare 
cases the ground coloiu' also indents the spot deeply on 
each side ; the apex itself, however, is never of the ground 
colour, as in C. latifascia. In most examples one or two 
naiTOW fulvous streaks extend along the lateral margin 
nearly to the base. The apical ventral segment is more 
or less fulvous. 
Section Heteroglosscc. 
Subfam. GALERITINiE. 
Drypta lineola, Dej. Spec. Gen. i. p. 184. 
Var. Japonica, Bates. 
Osaka ; one example. There is another from Japan, 
exactly conformable, in the British Museum. 
The Japanese var. or species differs from Chinese speci- 
mens in being larger (4^ lines), with thorax more gradually 
narrowed in front and more constricted near the base, and 
