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or yellowish spot ; exterior margins of the segments narrowly 

 orange or yellowish, base black. 

 Length b\-Q> lines. 



The characters on the antenna?, legs, abdomen underside, 

 and connexivum will enable any one to separate this species 

 from P. bidens, to which it bears a great resemblance. 



Family Cydnidae, Stal. 



Genus iEiHUS, Dallas. 



JEthus nigropiceus. 



Black or deep pitchy black, shining ; anterior margin of 

 the head and sides of the pronotum with long castaneous 

 hairs. 



Head : anterior margin slightly concave in the middle, and 

 with four foveas adjoining, one placed at the lower angle of 

 the inner margin of each eye and one on either side of the 

 apex of the central lobe : crown unpunctured, shining. An- 

 tenna? piceous, apex of the terminal joint pale brown. Eyes 

 reddish or brownish red. Rostrum piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum shining ; anterior margin with four 

 foveas, placed two on either side, between the two inner ones 

 are a few punctures in a curved line ; sides and posterior 

 margin rather broadly but finely punctured ; across and before 

 the middle of the disk are four foveas, the two exterior ones 

 deepest. Scutellum deeply and coarsely punctured, apex de- 

 pressed. Elytra deeply, but more thickly and finely, punctured 

 than the scutellum, the punctures disposed somewhat in rows. 

 Membrane pale fuscous. Legs piceous ; base of the tibiae 

 reddish ; tarsi yellow. 



Length 1^-2 lines. 



Immature specimens are reddish chestnut. 



Genus Maceoscytus, Fieb. 

 Macroscytus japonensis. 



Pitchy black or black, slightly shining. 



Head with a few long, stoutish, piceous hairs. Antennm 

 ferruginous brown, first joint sometimes piceous. Rostrum 

 pale brown. 



Thorax. — Pronotum posteriorly somewhat flattened in the 

 middle, with three transverse rows of punctures, or the space 

 enclosed by these entirely punctured ; at the anterior margin 

 are four foveas placed as follows — one near each anterior 



