174 Mr. Joseph S. Baly on the 



Genus Plagiodera, Redt. 

 Faun. Austr. p. 553. 

 Plagiodera distincta. 



Ovato-rotimdata, subtus nigra, nitida, pedibus cyaneis; 

 supra cyanea aut crerulea, antennis pallida piceis, ex- 

 trorsum nigris ; thorace minute punctate, elytris distincte 

 subseriatim punctatis. 



Long. 2 lin. 



Hah. — Nagasaki ; on sallow. 



Head minutely punctured, front impressed Avitli a 

 longitudinal depression, which runs upwards from the apex 

 of the triangular clypeus ; four loAver joints of antennas pale 

 piceous, stained above with cyaneous. Thorax more than 

 three times as broad as long, sides obliquely converging 

 from behind forwards, rounded and more quickly con- 

 verging at the apex, anterior angles rounded ; surface 

 finely and remotely pinictured, punctures on the sides 

 larger and more deeply impressed ; interspaces between the 

 punctures closely and minutely punctured. Elytra much 

 broader than the thorax ; shoulders broadly rounded ; 

 above moderately convex, dej^ressed on the disk, distinctly 

 punctured, the puncturing disposed here and there in 

 irregular stria?, interspaces finely punctured ; on the outer 

 disk, just within the lateral border, is an ill-defined longi- 

 tudinal costa. 



Larger than P. armoracicp. ; thorax broader and more 

 finely punctured; punctatiou of elytra also finer and less 

 crowded. 



Genus Ph.edon, Latr. 

 Regn. Animal, edit. 2e, v. p. 151. 

 The two species described below are new, and appear 

 to be confined to the Japanese Islands. 



Phcedoji Brass ic(S. 



Ovatum, convexum, nitidum, subtus nigrum, sujDra 

 obscuro-^neum, antennis nigris ; capite thoraceque for- 

 titer punctatis; elytris regulariter punctato-striatis, inter- 

 spatiis Itevibus, planis. 



Long. If — 2 lin. 



//a J.— Nagasaki; on turnips. 



Head deeply punctured; clypeus shghtly depressed, 

 pentangular, separated from the" upper part of the face by 



