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Eustra Batesi, sp. n. 



Rufo-testacea, nitida, suMepressa ; thorace minus transverso, sub- 

 cordato ; elytris perspicue imbricato-punctatis, disco post medium 

 infuscato ; antennis pedibusque rufo-testaceis. 



L. 2f mill. 



Reddish testaceous, shining, somewhat depressed ; the 

 thorax feebly explanate laterally, with very minute projec- 

 tions (but clearly seen under the microscope) at intervals 

 along the edges, and somewhat wide at the base (fig. 1) ; the 

 elytra clearly punctate, punctures shallow and being some- 

 times transversely confluent have an imbricate appearance ; 

 on the disk of each elytron just behind the middle is an infus- 

 cate blotch, more or less defined in different specimens ; the 

 pygidium also has a somewhat similar shallow imbricate 

 surface-sculpture. 



Fig. 1. Fig. 2. 



Bates formerly (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 237, 1873), 

 before he saw a Burmese specimen, considered this species to 

 be E. bt'plagiata, Schmidt-Goebel, but latterly (Ann. Mus. 

 Civ. Gen. ser. 2, vol. xii. p. 270, 1892) he called it Eustra 

 biplagiata, var. japonica. But it is, without doubt, a distinct 

 species. Eustra biplagiata, judging from an example from 

 Burmah so named by Bates and now in the Genoa Museum, 

 has the thorax very much narrowed behind (fig. 2) , without 

 conspicuous lateral projecticns, and the elytra are also much 

 less wide, and only " vage imbricato-punctatis," as Schmidt- 

 Goebel described them. The pygidium also is smooth. In 

 the Genoa Museum there is a third species from Teinzo in 

 Burmah, in which the head is less elongate, the eyes more 

 prominent, and the colour and general sculpture different. 



Hab. Common in Kiushiu under stones and bark of decay- 

 ing trees, and it is often gregarious. Also taken at Kashiwagi 

 and on Maiyasan near Kobe'. Some notes on its habits are 

 given in the Ent. M. M. p. 39 (1881). 



Trechus ovipennis, sp. n. 

 Gracile ovatus, supra depressus, piceo-brunneus, palpis, antennis 



