the CoccinellidEe of Japan. 33 



rufo ; thorace, angulis anticis exceptis, nigro ; elytris rufis, 

 4-nigro-maculatis; subtus pedibus bruaneis. 

 L. 1| mill. 



This species is much smaller than 8. punctata, Crotch, and 

 the punctuation is much finer on the thorax ; the head red ; 

 the thorax black, with tlie anterior angles obscurely red; the 

 elytra red, with a discal black spot common to both wing- 

 cases, two black lateral spots, one on each side on the middle 

 of the border, and an apical spot which corresponds with the 

 one on the dorsum ; the underside and legs brown. 



This is the only species of this series which has the bases 

 of the elytra clearly red and without marking ; it is a very 

 distinct species. 



Hab. Konose and Ichiuchi in Hiffo, 



Pentilia nigra, Weise. 

 Pentilia nigra, Weise, Deutsche ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 149 (1879). 



" Rotundata, modice couvexa, nigra, pubescens ; antennis, palpis 



pedibusque obscure ferrugineis." 

 L. § mill. 



Hah. Nagasaki, Ichiuchi, Fukushima, and Oyama in 

 Sagarai. 



Hyperaspis japonica^ Crotch . 



Cryptogonus japonicus, Crot. Revis. Coc. p. 203 (1874). 

 Hgperaspis testaceicornis, Weise, Deutsche ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 149; 

 Arch. f. Nat. p. 212 (1887). 



Hah. Kuroheiji, Nagasaki, Kashiwagi, Miyanoshita, and 

 Yokohama. 



Hyperaspis asiatica^ sp. n. 



Ovalis, convexa, supra punctulata ; fronte pallida rufa ; thorace 

 utrinque late rufo ; elytris nigris, macula rotundata pone medium 

 pallide rufa ; prosterno lato, bistriato. 



L. 3 mill. 



This species closely resembles H. reppensis, Herbst, but it 

 differs in the punctuation, colour of the head and thorax, and 

 in having a much broader prosternum. The head, face pale 

 red, base narrowly black ; the thorax broadly pale red at the 

 sides and narrowly pale on the anterior margin, disk and base 

 black ; the elytra with a reddish pale spot on either side well 

 before the apex, but nearer the outer margin than the suture, 

 surface clearly punctulate ; the prosternum broad, with two 



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