48 Mr. E. A. Smith on the 



second and third small and equal in size, fourth to the tenth 

 infuscate and strongly serrate on the inner edge ; the legs 

 entirely pale. 



Hab. Yuyama. Two male examples. 



Melanoxanthus pictipennisj sp. n. 



Niger, nitidus, fulvo-pubescens ; thorace angulis flavis ; elytris 

 macula basali recta, posticis fasciis duabus luteis ; antenrds (basi 

 excepta) infuscatis ; pedibus flavis. 



L. 5-6i miU. 



Elongate, somewhat parallel, with short tawny pubescence ; 

 the head black, convex, densely punctured ; the thorax simi- 

 larly punctured at the sides, more finely and much less 

 thickly on the disk, anterior angles minutely and trian- 

 gularly yellow, posterior angles more broadly yellow and 

 somewhat acutely produced ; the elytra black, with a longi- 

 tudinal vitta at the base, occupying part of the third and 

 fourth interstices and more shortly part of the fifth, before 

 the middle of the dorsum a transverse fascia commences 

 on the second interstice, widening out on the third, narrowing 

 on the fifth and sixth, then again widening out to the margin, 

 and extending along the epipleur?w almost to the humeral 

 angle, midway between the middle and the apices of the 

 elytra is another yellow band, nearly regular in width, and 

 not touching the sutural interstice nor the outside edge of the 

 wing-case, the strise are rather fine and punctulate, the inter- 

 stices flat and relatively wide, and somewhat rugosely punc- 

 tulate ; the legs are yellow ; the antennae yellow at the base, 

 and from the fourth or fifth joint infuscate. 



A variety of the species has the anterior angles of the 

 thorax black, and the median fascia interrupted on the fifth 

 and sixth interstices. 



Hab. Fukushima and Nataksugawa. Two examples only. 



[To be continued.] 



IV. — On the Land-Shells of the Sulu Archipelago. 

 By Edgak a. ISmith. 



[Plate IV.] 



Ouii knowledge of the terrestrial Mollusca of the Sulu 

 Archipelago is at present very limited, and the species about 

 to be enumerated will form a considerable addition to the list 

 of those already recorded from these islands. 



