Geode-pharjoiLS Coleoptern of Japan. 313 
broader than the head (eyes inckided), transverse qua- 
drate ; broadly dilated and rounded immediately from the 
obsolete anterior angles, sides not angulated, narrowed 
(scarcely sinuated) after the middle, hind angles rectan- 
gular and slightly produced; the base on each side the 
short, but not broad, lobe, is first slightly indented, and 
then inclined obliqiiely to the hind angle ; the lateral 
margins are widely explanated, and the disk strigose. 
Elytra oblong, not dilated behind, broadly subsinuate-trun- 
cate ; finely punctate-striate ; interstices very faintly and 
sparsely punctulate, here and there slightly convex in the 
middle ; third with two punctures ; the dark pitchy-brown 
colour is very broad at the apex, extending there a little 
forward along the suture ; at the sides it occupies inter- 
stices 6 — 9 ; at the base within the shoulder it is very 
narrow, expanding into a spot nearer the suture ; if we 
except the pale margins, the elytra might be described 
as pitchy-black, Avith a large tawny-red patch on each, 
united at the suture. 
Bothynoptera perforata, n. sp. 
Supra fulvo-fiisca nitida, capitis maculis, thoracis linea 
dorsali et marginibus, pedibus et antennarum basi testaceo- 
fulvis ; thorace transversim quadrato ; elytris subtilissime 
striato-punctatis, foveolis magnis quatuor in lineam di- 
gestis. 
Long. 5^ lin. 
Hiogo ; three examples, on foliage. 
Differs from the description and figure of B. dorsigcra 
(Schaum) in the slightly broader thorax and the absence 
of yellow patch from the middle of the elytra. The Avhole 
upper surface is of a fine tawny-brown colour, highly 
polished ; the margins and suture of the elytra are a little 
lighter, or yellower, in colour ; and so are the borders and 
dorsal line of the thorax, and the sides and large frontal 
spot of the head. The antennre are pitchy-red, with the 
scape yellowish ; the palpi also, as well as the whole under 
surface, are yellowish. The head has tAvo broad and deep 
frontal fovea?. The thorax does not differ in outline from 
that oi B. dor sic/era, except in being conspicuously broader. 
The elytra widen gradually and slightly from base to 
apex ; the latter is broadly truncate and slightly sinuate ; 
the strise are reduced to lines of very fine punctures, and 
the interstices are sparsely punctulate. The first and 
