266 Mr. G. Lewis on 



Phloeotrya beUicosay sp. n. 



Elongata, parallela, infuscata, opaca ; capite in medio impresso ; 

 elytris granulatis, obsolete tristriatis ; antennis pedibusque ob- 

 scure brunneis. 



L. 20-21 mill. 



Elongate, parallel, dusky brown, opaque ; the head densely 

 and evenly jiranulate, with a circular impression between tlie 

 eyes ; the thorax convex above, also densely but more coarsely 

 granulate than tiie head, with small irregularly set nodules 

 behind the neck and on the disk ; the elytra densely granulate 

 like the head, with three stria3 more or less visible and wide 

 apart ; the antennae and legs dull dusky brown. 



I believe this is the largest species known. 



Hab. Buno, Nishimura, Sapporo, and Junsai. 



PMoiotrija rugicollisj Mars. 



This species has more slander legs than P. hellicosa and 

 relatively shorter tarsal joints ; the third joint of the hind tarsus 

 is especially noticeable in this respect. 



L. 6i-lii mill. 



Hah. Maiyasan near Kobe, Kashiwagi, Sapporo, and Junsai. 



Dirccea jiavitarsis, sp. n. (PI. VIII. fig. 3.) 

 Elongata, parallela, fusco-brunnea ; elytris bifasciatis ; antennis 



articulo ultimo tarsisque flavis. 

 L. 11|-14 mill. 



Elongate, parallel, dusky brown, somewhat opaque; the 

 liead densely sculptured, usually with a well-marked fovea 

 between the eyes ; the thorax margined laterally, fuscous, 

 with a median yellowish pattern, which widens out trans- 

 versely on the anterior and posterior margins ; the scutellum 

 yellow ; the elytra finely and very densely granulate, with a 

 reddish-yellow transverse band rather before the middle with 

 dentate-sinuate edges, meeting at the suture, but not touching 

 the outer edges, before the apex is a lobe- shaped yellow spot 

 with its anterior edges only dentate ; the antennae dusky, 

 with the terminal joints flavous ; the thighs and tibiai dusky 

 brown, tarsi yellow. 



Hah. Yuyama, Miyanoshita, and Nikko. Found com- 

 monly. 



Dirccea validicornis, sp. n. 



Elongata, elliptica, nigra ; thoraoe canaliculato ; elytris 6-niaculatis ; 



antennis funiculi articulis sensim crassioribus. 

 L. 8 mill. 



Elongate, elliptical, black, with a bluish tinge above, some- 



