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nigris, pedlbus piceo-tinctis, tarsis nigro-piceis ; thorace 

 utrinque excavate, medio vitta elevata bifurcata nitida 

 iustructo ; elytris parallelis, fortiter punctatis, opacis, 

 utrisque vitta submargiaali picea instructis. 



Long. 2—21 lin. 



Hah. — Nagasaki. 



Head finely rugose-punctate ; encarpfe transverse, con- 

 tiguous, eyes scarcely prominent, black ; antennjB two- 

 thirds the length of the body, black, base of lower joints 

 fuscous. Thorax twice as broad as long, sides rounded, 

 bisinuate, hinder margin broadly sinuate, anterior and pos- 

 terior angles each armed with an obtuse tubercle ; disk 

 shining, deeply excavated on either side ; excavated por- 

 tion fiisco-sericeous, opake, rest of the surface glabrous ; on 

 the anterior half of the middle disk is an indistinctly raised, 

 smooth, biforcate vitta ; behind the latter, near the basal 

 border, are a few large, coarse punctures. Scutellum trun- 

 cate, black or pitchy-black. Elytra broader than the thorax , 

 parallel, moderately convex, strongly punctured, each elytron 

 with an ill-defined submarginal pitchy stripe, which, com- 

 mencing at the base, runs downward at a little distance 

 from the lateral border and extends nearly to the apex. 



Genus ^nidea, Baly. 

 Palpoxena, olim. 

 ^niclea armata. 



Elongata aut subelongata, nigra, nitida, capitis vertice 

 elytrisque cyaneis ; facie flava, antennis pedibusque pallide 

 piceis, illis basi tibiisque anticis flavis ; thorace tenuiter et 

 remote punctato, pone medium transversim impresso. 



Var. A. Antennis pedibusque fere totis nigris, facie 

 nigro-picea. 



iT/a5.— Clypeo ampliato, concavo, apice inter antennas 

 cornu cylindrico, apice capitato, instracto. 



Long. 2\ — 3i lin. 



iJa^*.— Nagasaki, Hiogo, Tsu Sima ; also Manchuria. 



This insect varies greatly in size and also to some extent 

 in coloration, the smaller specimens being generally more 

 brightly coloured than the larger ones. Basal half of 

 anteunte more or less Mvous, stained with piceous above ; 

 clypeus enlarged and produced in the $ , armed at the 

 apex with a short cylindrical horn, the upper end of which 

 is dilated into a flattened head; ? unarmed; encarpas dis- 



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