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oculisqiie nigris, thorace tenuiter pimctato ; elytris con- 

 fuse punctatis. 



Long. 1^ — H lin. 



Hah. — Nagasaki ; also Tsu Sima (Adams). 



Vertex smooth, impunctate ; encarpas remote, transverse- 

 quadrate, carina broad ; antenna3 with the four lower 

 joints flavous, the rest black, or pitchy black; second joint 

 slightly thickened, subovate, third and fourth each nearly 

 equal in length to the second, the fifth slightly longer. 

 Thorax more than twice as broad as long ; sides rounded, 

 converging from base to apex, anterior angles slightly 

 produced, thickened, obtuse, hinder angles obtuse ; basal 

 margin sinuate on either side the median lobe, the latter 

 very obtuse ; disk transversely convex, finely but distinctly 

 punctured. Elytra broader than the thorax, irregularly 

 punctured. 



Sphceroderma seriata. 



Subhemisphfcrica, fulva, nltida, oculls antennisque (his 

 basi exceptis) nigris; thorace tenuiter, subremote punctato ; 

 elytris sat fortiter punctatis, pvmctis striatim-, basi prope 

 suturam confuse-dispositis. 



Long. I lin. 



Hah. — Nagasaki ; a single specimen. 



Vertex smooth, impunctate ; encarpte transverse, con- 

 tiguous ; carina broad, compressed anteriorly ; eyes pro- 

 minent ; front border of clypeus, labrum and jaws piceous; 

 four lower joints of antenna flavous, the rest black ; 

 second, third and fourth joints short, nearly equal, the 

 second slightly thickened. Thorax rather more than 

 twice as broad as long ; sides narroAvly margined, slightly 

 rounded, converging from base to apex, anterior angles 

 thickened, obliquely truncate, hinder acute ; basal margin 

 distinctly bisinuate on either side the median lobe, the 

 latter rounded ; upper surface transversely convex, finely 

 but not closely punctured. Elytra broader than the 

 thorax, strongly punctured, the punctures arranged in 

 longitudinal strife, those at the base near the suture irre- 

 gularly placed. . 



Spliceroderma tarsata. 



Ovato-rotundata, convexa, fulva, nitida, oculis nigris; 

 thorace distincte punctato, punctis disci magis remotis, 

 minus fortiter impressis ; elytris fortiter punctatis, punctis 



