190 Mr. Joseph S. Baly on the 



more or less stained above witli dark piceous, the rest 

 black. Thorax nearly three times as broad as long, sides 

 broadly margined, romided, converging towards the apex, 

 sinuate just behind the anterior angle, hinder angle pro- 

 duced into an acute tooth; upper surface transversely 

 convex, transversely excavated in front of the base, finely 

 and remotely punctured ; dilated margin reflexed. Scu- 

 teUum trigonate, nigro-piceous. Elytra oblong-ovate, 

 convex, lateral border moderately dilated, disk finely 

 punctured ; the suture and a longitudinal stripe on the 

 middle of each elytron, commencing at the base, and ex- 

 tending for four-fifths the length of the disk, pitchy black. 



Genus PsEUDODERA, Baly. 

 Pseudodera xanthospila, Baly. 

 Journ. Ent. i. (1861), p. 200. 

 Hah. — Yohohama, Japan ; also Northern China. 



Genus Graptodera, Chevr. 



Diet. d'Orb. vi. 307. 



Graptodera ccerulescens. 



Oblongo-ovata, convexa, subtus nigro-crerulea, supra 

 nietaliico-CR3rulea, nitida, antennis nigris ; tliorace con- 

 vexo, sub lente minute punctato, sulco transverso fere ad 

 marginem lateralem extenso ; elytris oblongis, convexis, 

 infra basin non depressis, tenuiter sed distincte punctatis. 



Long. H — 2 lin. 



Hab. — Nagasaki, Tsu Sima ; also Chusan. 



Vertex smooth, impunctate ; encarpre oblique, trans- 

 verse, subquadrate, contiguous at the apex, separated from 

 the front by a distinct groove ; carina raised, its lower 

 half compressed and linear, the upper half hastate, space 

 on either side the lower portion smiooth, impunctate. 

 Thorax one-third broader than long, sides nearly parallel, 

 slightly sinuate at the base, obliquely rounded towards the 

 apex, anterior angles very obtuse, broadly incrassate, 

 hinder angles armed with a short tooth ; upper surface 

 smooth and shining, basal groove straight for nearly its 

 Avhole length, dilated and slightly sinuate at either end, 

 which nearly reaches the lateral border. Elytra oblong, 

 broader than the thorax, parallel, convex, distinctly punc- 

 tured, the punctures on the inner disk indistinctly arranged 

 in longitudinal striaa. 



