Phytophagous Coleoptera of Japan. 195 



eyes ovate, prominent, black; vertex smooth, impunctate; 

 front above the encarpse concavely excavated. Thorax 

 subcjlindrical, transversely grooved and constricted just 

 in front of the basal margin ; surface strongly punctured, 

 sparingly clothed with fulvous hairs. Scutellum black. 

 Elytra shining black, sparingly clothed with fulvous hairs ; 

 much broader than the thorax, oblong, convex, broadly 

 depressed transversely below the basilar space, the latter 

 slightly raised ; ^ surface strongly punctate-striate, inter- 

 spaces smooth, impunctate, thickened and subcostate at 

 the sides and apex; humeral callus elevated, the inter- 

 space extending downwards from its lower extremity, 

 costate for the whole length of the elytron. 



Genus CuEPiDODERA, Clievr. 



Diet. d'Orbigny, vi. 307. 



Crepidodera obscuritarsis, Motsch. 



Etud. Ent. ix. 27. 



Ilab. — Japan ; also Eastern Siberia. 



Mr. Lewis has not met with this insect. 



Crepidodera parmda. 



Ovata, convexa, nigra, nitida, antennis pedibusque 

 piceis, illis basi, tibiis tarsisque pallidis ; thorace fere ira- 

 punctato, sulco fere obsoleto ; elytris regulariter punctato- 

 striato, interstitiis nitidis, impunctatis. 



Long. I lin. 



Hah. — Nagasaki. 



Front impunctate, separated from the encai'pffi by a deep 

 groove ; encarpse obliquely transverse, contiguous ; four 

 \ wer joints of antennae piceo-fulvous, the rest nigro-piceous. 

 xhorax nearly twice as broad as long, sides parallel, ante- 

 rior angles thickened, obliquely truncate, produced laterally 

 into an indistinct tooth ; surface convex, nearly impunctate, 

 a few punctures only being visible at the base ; basal groove 

 indistinct, nearly obsolete. Elytra much broader than the 

 thorax, regularly punctate-striate, punctures large, inter- 

 spaces smooth and shining, impunctate. 



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