804 Mr. H. W. Bates 07i the 
tibiaa and tarsi (like the femora, except the black tips) 
clear fulvo-testaceoiis. The colour of the antenna? and 
palpi is the same ; the width and length of the red discal 
vitta of the elytra vary in D. lincola, but it always reaches 
the apex ; in D. Jajwnica it does not reach the apex, and 
the 1st interstice continues dark blue to the end of the 
suture. 
Galerita Jajjonica, n. sp. 
Elongata, robusta, subangusta, elytrorum humeris valde 
obliquis ; nigra ; capite, antennis, palpis, thoracisque disco 
testaceo-rufis ; pedibus flavis, femorum apice nigro ; capite 
grosse scabroso-punctato, postice usque ad collum lato 
subquadrato ; thoracc elongato - quadrato, antice paulo, 
postice sinuatim, angustato, angulis posticis rectis sed 
reflexis et apice rotundatis ; elytris elongatis, parallelis, 
costatis, interstitiis bi-striatis. 
Long. lOlin. $^. 
Nagasaki ; Yokohama ; many examples. 
Closely allied to G. nigripcnnis (Chaud.), and G. indica 
(Cliaud.), fi'om Northern India. Similar in colours and 
shape, especially in the form of the elytra, rounded and 
narrow at the shoulders, but not dilated behind. The 
thorax is as long as broad, not cordate, but narroAving 
slightly from its broadest part (before the middle) to the 
obtuse anterior angles; behind it is narrowed a little more, 
Avith slightly sinuated sides, Avhich fall rectangularly on the 
hind angles, although these are blunt at their apices ; the 
black margins of the thorax are more or less broad. 
Planetes himaculatus, Macleay, Annulosa Javanica, 
p. 28, t. 2, f 3. 
Nagasaki ; Hiogo. Under stones, abundant. Also 
China. 
I have compared specimens with Macleay's type (from 
Java) in the British !^luseum, and find no other difference 
than the slight prominence of the posterior angles of the 
thorax, which seems also to be a little more rounded on 
the sides in front. 
The genus has been erroneously placed in the Helluo- 
vincc subfamily, from which it differs in the short truncated 
labrum and the ligula furnished with very long, narrow 
])araglossa^, which are nearly three times the length of the 
ligula, and are strongly curved. The ligula itself is short, 
