216 Mr. Joseph S. Baly on the 



atim dispositis, tuberculls niagnls nigris acutis nonnullis 

 instructls; liumeris valde cristatis, margine serratis; mar- 

 gine lateral! paullo dilatato, spinis acutis numerosis armato, 

 margine apicali serrato. 



Long, l^ — 1| liu. 



Hab. — Hiogo, KaAvaclii ; also China. 



Antennae filiform, more than two-thirds the length of 

 the body, obsciu'e fulvous ; carina compressed, strongly 

 raised, eyes large, prominent, front and face rugose, black, 

 a narrow line running along the fi'ont, pale piceous. 

 Thorax nearly one-half broader than long, sides armed 

 with three strong flilvous spines, connected at the base ; 

 spines acute, sometimes armed near the apex AA'ith a short 

 tooth ; disk flattened, transversely sulcate at the base, 

 rugose-punctate, clothed with silvery adpressed hairs ; 

 apex cylindrical, armed on either side with an erect bifid 

 fulvous spine, the apices often toothed. Scutellum piceous, 

 triangular, its apex truncate. Elytra piceo-fulvous, macu- 

 lated with nigro-piceous, oblong, broader than the thorax, 

 strongly and deeply foveolate-striate, the alternate inter- 

 spaces subcostate ; disk of each elytron furnished Avith 

 eleven ortAvelve large, compressed, acute, black tuberosities, 

 those near the apex larger and more strongly elevated than 

 the others ; humeral callus strongly elevated into a flattened 

 ridge, its upper edge serrate ; lateral border narrowly mar- 

 gined, the outer edge armed with a single row of acute 

 spines, apical margin serrate. 



This species is very variable in colouring. 



Ilispa suhquadrata. 



Oblongo-quadrata, nigro-picea, hie illic piceo-maculata, 

 pedibus antennisque fulvis, his extrorsum fuscis ; thorace 

 transverso, rugoso, apice spinis bifidis duabus, lateri utro- 

 que spinis tribus armato ; elytiis subquadratis, apice 

 truncatis, margine dilatato, humeris margineque basali 

 spinis numerosis brevibus acutis armatis ; dorso sub- 

 depressis, profunde punctatis, rugosis, tuberculis acutis 

 magnis nonmdlis instructis. 



Long. 2^ lin. 



Hab. — Nagasaki, Hiogo. 



Head rugose ; antennse filiform, six lower joints ful- 

 vous, the rest fuscous. Thorax transverse, disk flat- 

 tened, coarsely rugose-punctate, and with five irregular. 



