178 Mr. Joseph S. Baly on the 



(the first excepted) fiilvous ; a large patch on either side 

 the neck, and a smaller one on the vertex, black. Thorax 

 more than twice as broad as long, disk transversely con- 

 cave, more deeply excavated on the middle and on either 

 side, rugiilose-punctate, a small round spot on the middle 

 of the base and a broad stripe on the lateral margin, 

 abbreviated at the apex, black. Scutellum trigonate, its 

 apex truncate. Elytra broader than the thorax, naiTOwly 

 oblong, sides parallel, their outer margin broadly mar- 

 gined, reflexed ; surface rather coarsely and somewhat 

 closely punctured, interspaces granulose-rugose. 



Galleruca vittaticollis. 



Ovata, convexa, flisco-testacea, fulvo-sericea, pleuris, 

 vertice pedibusque piceis, femoribus subtus pallidis, scu- 

 tello antennisque nigris ; thoracc profimde punctato, 

 utrinque excavato, medio vitta lata nigra, basi et apice 

 abbreviata omato ; elytris crebre, sat profiinde punctatis. 



Long. 2^ lin. 



Hab. — Nagasaki, Yokohama. 



Vertex mgose-punctate, its surface nearly covered with 

 a large black patch ; eyes, labrum and antennas also black, 

 basal joints of the latter piceous beneath ; encarpse sub- 

 quadrate, contiguous ; carina linear, strongly raised ; epi- 

 stome bounded above by a strongly-raised ridge. Thorax 

 three times as broad as long, sides angulate, sinuate behind 

 the middle, anteiior and posterior angles distinct, the 

 former armed with an obtuse tooth, the latter acute ; upper 

 surface deeply excavated on either side, strongly and deeply 

 impressed with large roimd punctures, slightly but dis- 

 tinctly excavated in the middle, just behind the apical 

 border. Scutellum tngonate, black. Elytra broader than 

 the thorax, oblong, rather closely pimctured, the punctures 

 similar to those on the thorax, but rather smaller and less 

 deeply impressed. 



Galleruca Sagittarm, Gyll. 



Ins. Suec. iii. 511. 



Hah. — Hiogo, Japan ; also Northern Asia, and nearly 

 the whole of Europe. 



Galleruca distincta. 

 Anguste oblonga, pallide fusca, fusco-sericea ; abdomine, 

 vertice, antennis (his basi exceptis), scutello oculisque 



