the Cistelicla? &c. of Japan. 275 



Melandrija pictipennis, sp. n. (PI. VIII. fig. 8.) 



Elongata, nigra, nitida, piibescens ; capite deuse piinctato ; elytris 



flavo-maculatis, haud striatis. 

 L. 6^-7 mill. 



Elongate, black, pubescent, shining ; the head densely and 

 clearly punctured, sometimes with a fovea between the eyes; 

 the thorax rather less thickly punctured, widest before the 

 base, narrowest anteriorly, basal fovese v/ide and shallow, 

 median channel moderately deep ; the elytra, without stria^, 

 black, with a wide flavous band over the metasteinum, which 

 leaves the outer and sutural edges black, well behind the 

 middle is a second band, which touches the outer edge (but 

 not the sutural) and along the edge it continues on narrowly 

 almost to the apex. A second specimen has the elytral 

 markings different ; the base is narrowly pale, the median 

 band is reduced to an elongate lateral spot and the apical 

 dark area has a median flavous region along the suture ; the 

 antennas black, with the apex of the last joint, and three or 

 four otliers at the base, reddish ; the legs also reddish, with 

 infuscate joints. 



The example figured is perhaps the most constant colour- 

 form of this variable species. I do not see any reason for 

 not including the species in Melandrya^ but it may be allied 

 to species placed by Leconte and Horn in Prothalpia. 



Hah. Nikko, Chiuzenji, and Nishimura. I found only fonr 

 examples. 



Penthe japana, Mars. 



This species is like P. ohliquata, in having the scutellum 

 covered with orange -coloured hair. The apical joint of the 

 antennae is also of the same colour. 



Hah. Common in a white arboreal fungus throughout all 

 the islands. 



Scotodes niponicus, sp. n. 



This species resembles S. annulatus, Eschsch., in colour and 

 facies generally, but it is more robust; the sculpture of the 

 elytra is coarser and the tarsi are shorter. The shortness of 

 the tarsus is most conspicuous in the basal joint of the hind 

 foot. 



L. 9^ mill. 



Marseul did not notice these differences, and assigned it to 

 the European species. I do not know S. uni/b7'mis, Motsch. 



Hah. Miyanoshita, in May. Four or five examples only. 



