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punctures, a longitudinal line down the front impunctate ; 

 encarpa3 and carina obsolete ; antennae more than half the 

 length of the body, slightly thickened towards the apex, 

 four lower joints fulvo-piceous, stained above with piceous. 

 Thorax about a third broader than long, sides obliquely 

 diverging from the base to the middle, thence rounded and 

 converging to the apex, hinder and anterior angles acute ; 

 disk convex, dee])ly foveolate-punctate. Elytra rather 

 broader than the thorax, parallel, convex, deeply foveolate- 

 striate ; interspaces on the outer disk and towards the apex 

 costate. 



Genus PsYLLiODES, Latr. 



Regn. Anim. v. 139. 

 PsylUodes angusticollis. 



Elongato-ovata, nigro-tenea, nitida, antennis pedibusque 

 fulvis, illis extrorsum tarsisque infuscatis, femoribus pos- 

 ticis piceis ; thorace punctato, lateribus subparallelis, 

 leviter rotundatis ; elytris distincte punctato-striatis, inter- 

 spatiis planis, sub lente minute sed sparse punctatis. 



Long. 1 lin. 



Hah. — Nagasaki. 



Head narrowly triangular, front slightly swollen, smooth, 

 impunctate. Thorax scarcely one-third broader than long, 

 sides nearly parallel, slightly rounded, converging towards 

 the apex, anterior angles thickened, broadly and obliquely 

 truncate ; surface covered with rather large but shallow 

 punctures, the interstices finely granidose-punctate. Elytra 

 broader at the base than the thorax, narrowly ovate, con- 

 vex, distinctly but not very deeply punctate-striate ; inter- 

 spaces smooth, very finely but sparingly punctured (the 

 punctures only visible under a deep lens). 



PsylUodes punctifrons. 



Elongato-ovata, convexa, obscure viridi-fenea, nitida, 

 antennis piceis, basi fulvis, pedibus piceo-fulvis, femoribus 

 quatuor anticis piceis, posticis piceo-isneis ; thorace crebre 

 punctato, lateribus rectis ; elytris sat fortiter punctato- 

 striatis, interspatiis distincte punctatis. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



Hah. — Nagasaki. 



Vertex and front distinctly punctured; interspaces 

 minutely gramdose, encarpas obsolete ; three lower joints of 



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