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very convex, rounded at the apex, and furnished with 
many long stiff bristles. The tooth of the mentum is fur- 
rowed in the middle and notched at the tip. The sculp- 
ture of the elytra (ill-described by Macleay) is like that of 
the typical Galerita ; sharp ridges or raised lines, with 
two smaller raised lines in each interval between them. 
Subfam. BRACniNiNiE. 
Pheropsophus Jessoensis, JNIorawitz, Bull. Acad. St. 
Petersb. v. 1863, p. 322; id. Beitr. p. 23, t. 1, 
f. 9. 
Hiogo ; Nagasaki. Also North China. 
Brachinus scotomedes, Redtenbacher, Reise der Novara, 
Coleop. p. 5. 
Yokohama. 
A fine large species (71 lines), with head, thorax, an- 
tennae and legs testaceous - red, and elytra dull grayish- 
black, feebly carinated. 
B. stenoderus, n. sp. ; B. longicornis, Motsch. Schrenck's 
Reise, Coleopt. p. 92? (1860). 
Elongatus, rufus, pectore et abdomine fusco-marginatis; 
elytris cyaneis, convexis, costis acutis septem nitidis, in- 
terstitiis granulatis, breviter fulvo-pubescentibus ; capite 
postice elongato, gradatim angustato ; thorace angusto, 
lateribus antice parum rotundatis, postice longe sinuatis, 
suj)ra punctulato et transversim striato. 
Long. ^—5\ lin. 
Nagasaki ; Kawachi, very abundant. 
The underside of the body is coloured as in B. fumans, 
except that the dusky border is more distinctly defined. 
The general shape is also similar to that of B. fumans, 
but the thorax is very different and peculiar in outline, 
being very little rounded on the sides anteriorly, and not 
narrowed to the anterior angles, which are distinct and 
not deflexed. The elytra are oblong-ovate, Avith squared 
shoulders ; the costae, including the sutural, are seven in 
number ; narrow, sharp and shining, of a darker hue than 
the blueish-green of the interstices ; an eighth costa appears 
towards the tip in large individuals ; the deflexed epi- 
pleurte are blue. The legs aud antennae are rather more 
elongated than usual. 
If the species be the B. longicornis of Motschulsky, his 
