the (Jistelidaj (tc. of Japan. 259 



Eiisfrophus iiipoju'cuSj sp. n. 



Tliis sj)ccii's is extremely like E. dermestoides, Fabr. It 

 differs structurally in being a little narrower in body, thoracic 

 posterior angles much less overlapping, thorax more rounded 

 off behind the eye; scutellum one-fourtli smaller; hind tibia3 

 less stout, with the tarsi longer and less robust. In sculpture 

 the punctuation is less marked, and the carina along the base 

 of thorax much less conspicuous. The pubescence also is 

 more tawny. 



I/ab. Sapporo. Two examples only. 



Uolostrophus orientalis, sp. n. 



Oblono;o-ovalis, rufo-brunneus, pubeseens ; elytris bifasciatis, disco 

 rufo-bimaculato, apicibus obscure rufia ; antennis pedibusque rufo- 

 bruuneis. 



L. 6-0^ mill. 



Oblong oval, rather densely clothed with sliort pubescence ; 

 the head wholly red ; the thorax, disk, and base more or less 

 widely infuscate, anterior and hiteral edge reddish, rather 

 densely punctulate ; the elytra black, with a fascia at the 

 base reddish brown, the fascia leaves two round dusky spots 

 on the basal edge, one near the humeral angle, the other 

 midway between it and the suture, posteriorly the fascia is 

 bidentate, the inner dentation being the strongest, on the 

 middle of the dorsum on each side of the suture is a reddish 

 spot irregular in outline, and behind it on the outer elytral 

 edge and extending two-thirds across tlie wing-case, is a 

 second fascia, the apices of the elytra are also somewhat 

 reddish brown; the antennae and legs reddish brown, with the 

 thicker joints of the former somewhat dusky. In one 

 example the dusky spots at the base of the elytra join. 



Hab. Hitoyoshi on llakuwayama in May, and at Niigata 

 in September. 



Holostrophus dux, sp. n. 



//. quadrimaculato simillimus, at multo major et latior ; capito 

 rufo ; thorace nigrro ; elytris 4-maculati8 ; subtus rufo-brunnous. 

 L. 6^ miU. 



This fine species in colour and elytral markings is extremely 

 like //. 4-maculatus, but it is very much larger and the legs 

 and tarsi are much more robu?t. Tlic iiead is red ; the thorax 

 black above ; the elytra with four red spots, the red spot 

 below the shoulder is narrower and more transverse than that 

 of 4-viaculatus, and it leaves a much wider margin of black 

 on the outer edge, and the anterior edge of the inaculation is 



