154 Mr. J. S. Baly on new Species of Crioceridae. 



labrum, lower parts of epistome, and round the eyes with short, 

 adpressed, aureo-sericeous hairs; front impressed with a deep 

 fovea, on either side of which is a fine but distinct groove, which, 

 commencing at the apex of the epistome, runs obliquely upwards 

 on either side to surround the upper portion of the orbit of the 

 eyes, but at a considerable distance from the eye itself; eyes 

 not mounted on a raised orbit, rotundate, entire; antennae 

 slightly thickened towards their apex, moderately robust. Tho- 

 rax cylindrical, slightly flattened above, subquadrate, its surface 

 closely covered with deep, irregular, transverse grooves; just in 

 front of the base, and again behind the apex, are two indistinct 

 transverse depressions. Scutellum smooth, triangular, its apex 

 obtusely truncate. Elytra much broader than the thorax, pa- 

 rallel, acutely i*ounded or almost angulate at their apex ; sub- 

 cylindrical above, slightly flattened along the back, obsoletely 

 depressed transversely below the basilar space, their apical por- 

 tion suddenly and obliquely deflexed; closely and somewhat 

 finely rugose, closely clothed with short, adpressed, aureo-seri- 

 ceous pubescence ; whole surface (with the exception of the de- 

 flexed apex) covered with large, broad, raised, glabrous reticula- 

 tions; on the anterior half of the inner disk these elevations 

 become much dilated, and coalesce so as to occupy by far the 

 greater portion of the whole surface. Body beneath clothed with 

 coarser hairs than the upper surface ; abdomen smooth, impunc- 

 tate, each segment impressed on either side its centre with a deep 

 fovea, from the surface of which springs a tuft of pale suberect 

 hairs ; hinder thighs extending rather beyond the apex of the 

 abdomen. 



Crioceris rugata, Baly. 

 C. elongata, nigra, nitida, thoracis dorso elytrisque fulvis ; antennis * 

 subfiliformibus, vix compressis et perfoliatis ; thorace subquadrato, 

 lateribus leviter coarctato, dorso rude punctato ; elytris infra basin 

 obsolete transversim depressis, profunde punctato-striatis, inter- 

 stitiis basi planis, apicern versus subelevatis ; scutello piceo, glabro. 

 Long. 3| lin. 



Hab. Japan. 



Head deeply constricted behind the eyes ; forehead impressed 

 with a deep groove ; face triangular, closely covered with ad- 

 pressed sericeous hairs ; eyes deeply notched ; antennae half the 

 length of the body, moderately robust, subfiliform, first, third, 

 and fourth joints equal in length, fifth to the eleventh each half 

 as long again as the fourth, equal, somewhat thickened and 

 compressed, scarcely perfoliate. Thorax subquadrate, subcy- 

 lindrical, sides moderately constricted in the middle, stained in 

 front with nigro-piceous ; upper surface deeply and coarsely 

 punctured. Scutellum triangular, its apex truncate. Elytra 

 much broader than the thorax, parallel, upper surface slightly 



