and Asiatic Species of Laius. 331 
ll. Laius kiesenwetteri. 
3b. Laius flavicornis, Kies. Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1874, p. 288 (nec Fabr.). 
Laius kiesenwetteri, Lewis, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xvi. p. 116 
(1895). | 
6. Head with a large triangular whitish patch in front ; 
antennal joints ] and 2 long and broad, 1 curved, abruptly 
widened from near the base, hollowed externally, 2 with a 
longitudinal, oval excavation towards the apex externally 
and a straight, truncated appendage at the base (Pl. VILI. 
fig. 8), 3-9 rather slender, longer than broad. 
@. Head wholly black; antennal joints 1 and 2 mode- 
rately thickened, 1 uearly twice as long as 2, 2 at least twice 
the length of 3. 
Var. The broad pallid elytral fascia with a reddish-brown 
narrower band across tbe middle. 
9. Laius histrio, Kies. loc. cit. 
Hab. Japan, Kiushiu and Nipon; Cuyina, Shanghai, 
Chusan Is., Kelan Pt., Pwanche Id. (J. J. Walker). 
Not recorded hitherto from China, where Commander 
Walker found it not uncommonly in 1892, males preponde- 
rating in the series before me. The broad whitish elytral 
fascia varies in development, sometimes not quite reaching 
the suture, and it occasionally has a reddish or brown band 
across the middle, a g from Pwanche Id. showing this 
intermediate fascia very clearly. ‘The femora and tibiz are 
sometimes partly infuscate. 
12. Laius pelegrini. 
? Laius pelegrini, Pic, L’Echange, xxvi. p. 62 (1910). 
?. Elongate, rather narrow, shining, sparsely pubescent 
and with longer erect hairs intermixed ; black, the antennal 
joints 1-3, the elytra with a very broad common fascia 
below the base (extending forwards beneath the humeri and 
backwards along the suture and outer margin), and the legs 
testaceous; the head sparsely, minutely, the sides of the 
prothorax closely, the elytra more distinctly, punctured, the 
prothorax smooth on ‘the disc. Head impressed in the 
middle between the eyes; antennal joints 1 and 2 lcng, 
thickened, 2 nearly as long as 1. Prothorax convex, 
subcordate, deeply, transversely excavate before the base. 
Elytra long, dilated beyond the middle, rounded at the tip. 
Length 34 mm. 
Hab. Javan, Yedo (Pelegrin, in coll. Pic: types, $ 2), 
Nowata (G. Lewis). 
