396 Mr. G. Lewis on 



In outline and colour this species resembles P. umhratum, 

 Mars., an insect which measures 10 mill, and has the basal 

 joint of the anterior tarsus in the male considerably enlarged : 

 but there are no sexual differences in the tibia?. I think 

 P. umhratuvi and P. malnccum, Mars., and the above species 

 niiii-lit be very well separated from Plati/dema. 



Hah. Kioto and Nara. Five examples. 



Platydema scriptum^ sp. n. 



Obloncjo-ovatum, rufo-brunneum, subopacum ; elytris pnnctato- 



striatis, fasciis duabus dentato-sinuatis. 

 L. 2i mill. 



Reddish brown, somewhat opaque; the head rather densely 

 punctulate, clypeus reddish, semicircular in outline ; the 

 thorax punctured like the head, arched at the sides, colour 

 darkest on the disk; the elytra punctate-striate, interstices 

 opaque and impunctate, variegated with dark markings, 

 which usually take the form of two dorsal dentate-sinuate 

 fascia? ; tiie apex reddish brown, with the pattern widening 

 out on the sides ; the antennae and legs reddish brown. 



This small species resembles P. hieroglijphicumy Cast. Brul. 

 The colour of the elytra is variable. This also, and those 

 resembling it, ought, I think, to be separated from the genus 

 Plah/dema. 



Ilah. Nagasaki. Three examples, 



Basanus erotyloides^ Lew. (PI. XIIT. fig. 7.) 

 JBasanus erotyloides, Lew. Ent. M. M. 1891, p. 71. 



This species is noticed hei-e merely to call attention to the 

 figure ; the insect is black, with red or yellowish-red elytral 

 markings, and the abdomen is of the same colour. 



Hah. Found in most of the forests. 



Scaphidema ornaicUum^ sp. n. 



Ovatum, aeneo-nigrum, nitidum ; thorace piano marginibus utrinque 



canaliculatis ; elytris a basi liavo-fasciatis ; pedibus rufis. 

 L. 4|-o mill. 



Ovate, brassy black, shining; the head irregularly punc- 

 tured, anteriorly reddish ; the thorax more finely and more 

 sparingly punctured than the head, lateral margins distinctly 

 canaliculate ; the scutellum brassy or obscurely red ; the 

 elytra })unctate-striaie, interstices feebly convex, very spa- 

 ringly punctulate, with a yellow fascia near the base on 

 interstices 3-8 ; on the filth interstice the fascia widens out 



