2GG Mr. G. Lewis oti 



rhloeotrya bellicosa, sp. n. 



Elongata, parallela, infuscata, opaca ; capite in medio impresso ; 



olvtris pranulatis, obsolete tristriatis ; antennis pedibusque ob- 



5;curc bruimeis. 

 L. 20-21 mill. 



Elongate, parallel, dusky brown, opaque ; tlie head densely 

 and evenly "ranulate, with a circular impression between the 

 eyes ; the thorax convex above, also densely but more coarsely 

 granulate than the head, with small irregularly set nodules 

 behind the neck and on the disk ; the elytra densely granulate 

 like the head, with three strife more or less visible and wide 

 apart ; the antennae and le<2"s dull dusky brown. 



I believe this is the largest species known. 



Hab. Buno, Nishimura, Sapporo, and Junsai. 



PhIoeotr>/a ruqicoUis, Mars. 



This species has more slender legs than P. bellicosa and 

 relatively shorter tarsal joints ; the third joint of the hind tarsus 

 is especially noticeable in this respect. 



L. 6^-lii mill. 



Hab. Maiyasan near Kobe, Kashiwagi, Sapporo, and Junsai. 



IJircoia jlavitarsis, sp. n, (PI. VIII. fig. 3.) 



Elongata, parallela, fusco-bninnea ; elj'tris bifasciatis ; antennis 



arliculo ultimo tarsisque tiavis. 

 L. 11 1-14 mill. 



Elongate, parallel, dusky brown, somewliat opaque; the 

 head densely sculptured, usually with a well-marked fovea 

 between tlie eyes ; the thorax margined laterally, fuscous, 

 with a median yellowish pattern, which widens out trans- 

 versely on the anterior and posterior margins ; the scutellum 

 yellow ; the elytra finely and very densely granulate, with a 

 reddish-yellow transverse band rather before the middle with 

 dentate-sinuate edges, meeting at tiie suture, but not touching 

 the outer edges, before the apex is a lobe-shaped yellow spot 

 with its anterior edges only dentate ; the antennas dusky, 

 with the terminal joints flavous ; the thighs and tibiai dusky 

 brown, tarsi yellow. 



Hab. Yuyama, Miyanoshita, and Nikko. Found com- 

 monly. 



Dirccea validicornis^ sp. n. 



Elongata, elliptica, nigra ; thorace canaliculate ; elytris G-maculatis; 



antennis funiculi articulis sensim crassioribus. 

 L. 8 mill. 



Elongate, elliptical, black, with a bluish tinge above, some- 



