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each side near the front. Scutenum impimctate. Elytra 

 not much more than three-fourths the length of the 

 thorax ; their ground colour is an obscure red, but they 

 are so much infuscate, as to leave only the margins red- 

 dish, but their colour is variable ; they are distinctly and 

 rather roughly, but not coarsely or closely punctured, and 

 are but little shining. Hind body rather coarsely and 

 closely punctured. Legs yellow. Beneath, the insect is 

 of a p^ler colour than above. 



The eight individuals of this species I have examined 

 vary considerably in the colour of the elytra: from dull 

 reddish to nearly or quite black. 



Hiogo and Nagasaki. Common. 



1)6. Otiiius latus, n. sp. Elongatus, latior, nigcr, 

 antennis obscure nifescentibus, pedibus rufis ; thorace 

 basin versus angustato, elytris hoc paulo brevioribus, 

 fortiter punctatis, nitidulis. Long. 7 lin. 



Readily distinguished from O. medius by its broader 

 form and less opaque but more strongly punctured elytra. 

 Antennae rather stout, didl reddish, or even pitchy red, 

 with the basal joints a little paler; joints 7 — 10 differing 

 but little from one another, each scarcely so long as broad. 

 PaljDi red. Head rather broad, just a little narrower than 

 the thorax, distinctly narrowed towards the front, shining 

 black, coarsely and sparingly punctured, with a space 

 along the middle impunctate. Thorax longer than broad, 

 a little broader in front than at the base, its width in front 

 equal to that of the elytra ; it is black, shining, and im- 

 punctate, with the exception of a few punctures at the 

 margins and near the front angles. Elytra a little shorter 

 than the thorax, black or pitchy black, strongly but not 

 closely punctured, and distinctly shining. Hind body 

 rather strongly and closely punctured. Legs reddish- 

 yellow. 



Two females from Copper Temple, Nagasaki, are all I 

 have seen of this insect ; but Mr. Lewis has sent me from 

 Northern China a specimen of a male Othius, which, 

 though rather smaller and narrower than the individuals 

 above described, pertains I have no doubt to the same 

 species ; it has the middle of the sixth segment of the 

 hind body beneath longitudinally flattened or depressed, 

 densely punctiu-ed and pubescent, the hind margin a little 

 emarginate. The seventh segment is in the middle to- 



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