34 - Mr. David Sharp on the 



mandibles are pitchy, stout, obtusely toothed in the 

 middle. The head is obscurely brassy black, densely and 

 rather coarsely punctured. The thorax is longer than 

 broad, quite as broad as the elytra, very slightly narrowed 

 in front, its colour and scul))ture the same as on the 

 head. Scutellum clothed with black pile. Elytra ob- 

 scurely brassy black, their punctuation similar to that of 

 cupreus; they are distinctly shorter than the thorax. 

 Hind body rather closely, and moderately finely punc- 

 tured, Avith a black pubescence ; the basal segment with 

 yellowish pubescence, and the 5th and Gth segments with 

 a patch of scanty yellowish hairs in the middle at the base ; 

 the hind margins of the terminal segments a little reddish. 

 Legs pitchy, the tibia; and tarsi paler, the front tibia3 short 

 and stout, with two or three stout spines behind. 



In the male, the hind margin of the 7th abdominal 

 segment is on the under side broadly, but not deeply, 

 excised in the middle. 



A single specimen, Maiyasama, August, 1871. 



{/ 64. Ocijpus cfloriosus, n. sp. Elongatus, parallelus, 

 niger, capite, elytris abdomiuisque apice dense auro- 

 pubescentibus ; thorace abdomiuisque basi nigro-pubes- 

 centibus, pedibus testaceis. Long. 7|- lin. 



The form of this exquisite insect is that of Ocypus 

 cupreus, and it is but little larger than that species. The 

 antenna? are similarly formed to those of O. cupreus, but 

 are longer; the two basal joints are reddish. The head 

 is brassy, coarsely and closely punctured, and densely 

 clothed with a beautiful, shining, golden pubescence. The 

 thorax, like the head, is densely and coarsely punctured, and 

 is clothed with a black pubescence, as also is the scutellum. 

 The elytra are shorter than the thorax, and are so densely 

 clothed with a golden pubescence as not to permit their 

 colour or sculpture to be seen. The hind body is very 

 densely and finely punctured, the basal segments densely 

 clothed with a black pubescence; the 5th (except at the 

 hind margin), the 6 til and 7th segments Avith a golden pubes- 

 cence. The legs are yelloAv; the under-side of the insect 

 is covered with a golden pubescence, less dense than that 

 on the upper parts. 



A single specimen of this, one of the most elegant of 

 the StopJiylinidce, has been found at Sakai, near Osaka. 

 Its general structure is quite that of O. cupreus. 



