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paullo rugose punctato, inter oculos parum sparse punctato ; 

 thorace sparse punctato, angulis anticis depressis, lateribus 

 arcuatis. 

 L. 7|-8 mill. 



In 1874 Waterhouse considered that this species belonged 

 to A. splendida, Bohm., but a larger series of specimens now 

 available for examination proves it to be distinct. The form 

 of the clypeus is shorter and relatively broader, and it is more 

 widely arched and consequently wider before the eyes ; the 

 thorax is more transversely convex, and the anterior angles 

 are more obtuse and depressed and the lateral margin more 

 arcuate. The punctuation also of the ventral segments is 

 larger and the pygidium less wide and not caTinate in the 

 middle. The tarsi are longer and more slender. The scu- 

 tellum is almost impunctate. In some examples the elytra, 

 metasternum, and ventral segments are brownish, with an 

 asneous tinge. 



Bab. Nagasaki and other places in Kiushiu. There are 

 examples from my collection in the British Museum and in 

 the Museum at Brussels. 



Apogonia bicarinata, sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovata, nigra, nitida, capite thoraceque sat dense et grosse 

 punctatis ; clypeo arcuato, antice vix sinuato ; scutello sparse sed 

 distincte puuctato ; elytris punctatis, singulo in medio bicostato ; 

 propygidio pygidioque in mediis conspicue carinatis. 

 L. 10 mill. 



Oblong-oval, black, shining, with a very faint cupreous 

 tint ; the head closely but not densely punctate ; clypeus 

 widely arched, with the outline very feebly sinuous or nearly 

 straight, narrowly and not markedly reflexed at the edge ; the 

 thorax punctured like the head, anterior angles obtuse, not 

 produced ; the elytra punctate, punctures chiefly in rows, with 

 two median and one sutural costte on each smooth ; the pro- 

 pygidium and pygidium rugosely punctate, each with a 

 median carina occupying their whole length ; the palpi and 

 antennas brown or testaceous. The anterior tibiae are pro- 

 longed beyond the tarsi (except in Schonfeldt's example, 

 which is malformed), but they are not conspicuously dentate 

 like others of this genus. 



This species differs from A. splendida, Bohm., in colour, 

 being concolorous throughout, in the form of the clypeus, in 

 the scutellum being punctured, and, above all, in the pro- 

 pygidium and pygidium both having a carina. 



Hab. Japan (Ritsema), Oshima (Schonfpldt) . The type 

 specimen belongs to the Museum of Brussels. 



