186 Mr. Joseph S. Baly on the 



present genus, for the same reason that I have altered my 

 genus Palpoxena into j3Lnidea. 



Aulacophora femoralis , Motsch. 

 Rhapidopalpa femoralis, Motsch. Etud. Ent. vi. 37. 

 Hob. — Nagasaki (Lewis), Simoda ( Gaschkevitch). 



Aulacophora nigripennis, Motsch. 

 Etud. Ent. 1857, p. 38. 

 Ilah. — Nagasaki. 



' Aulacophora angulicollis, Motsch. 



Ovata, postice ampliata, convexa, flavo-alba, nitida, 

 ocuKs, pectore, elytrorumque maculis tribus nigris, anten- 

 nis pedibusque piceis. 



Var. A. Elytrorum macula basali obsoleta. 



B. Elytris totis immaculatis. 



Raj)hidopalpa anrjulicollis, Motsch. Etud. Ent. ii. 50. 



Mas. — Elytris fovea magna communi, infra basin posita, 

 marginc elevata, instructis. 

 Long. 2^ lin. 

 Hab. — Nagasaki ; also Chinese Tartary, Pekin. 



Head smooth and shining, impimctate ; antennee piceous, 

 joints pale beneath. Thorax impunctate. Elytra much 

 broader than the thorax, dilated posteiiorly, convex, dis- 

 tinctly punctured ; the outer border, abbreviated behind the 

 middle, and three large patches, one common, at the base, 

 the two others placed one on each elytron, subapical and 

 attached to the outer margin, black. Legs piceous, knees 

 and basal half of tibia? pale. 



Aulacophora quadriplagiata. 



Ovata, convexa, postice leviter dilatata, pallide fulva, 

 nitida, pectore scutelloque nigris, antennis (basi excepta), 

 femoribus dorso, tibiis intus, tarsisque piceis ; elytris flavo- 

 albidisj-distincte punctatis, utrisque plagis duabus magnis, 

 longitudinaliter positis, inter se confluentibus, nigris. 



Long. 21 lin. 



//aZ>.— Nagasaki, unique in Mr. Lewis's collection. 

 _ Front excavated just above the encarpje, the latter dis- 

 tmctly raised, narrower, and less dilated behind than 



