the Cisteli'liu tfr. of Jupon. 275 



Melandrya pictipennis^ A\). n. (PI. \'III. fi^. <S.) 



Elongata, niijra, nitida, puhesccus ; capitc deuse puuctato ; clytris 



riavo-raaciilatis, liaud striatis. 

 L. ))^-7 mill. 



Elongate, black, pubescent, shining; the head densely and 

 clearly punctured, sometimes with a tovea between the eyes; 

 the thora.x rather less thickly jiunctured, widest before the 

 base, narrowest anteriorly, basal t'ovese wide and shallow, 

 median channel moderately deep ; the elytra, without stria-, 

 black, with a wide flavous band over the metasternum, which 

 leaves the outer and sulural edges black, well behind the 

 middle is a second band, which touches the outer edge (but 

 not the sutural) and along the edge it continues on narrowly 

 almost to the ai)ex. A second specimen has the elytral 

 niarkings different; the base is narrowly pale, the median 

 band is reduced lo an elongate lateral spot and the apical 

 dark area has a median flavous region along the suture ; the 

 antcnnse black, with the apex of the last joint, and three or 

 four others at the base, reddish ; the legs also reddish, with 

 infuscate joints. 



The examj)le figured is perhaj)S the most constant colour- 

 form of this variable species. 1 do not see any reason for 

 not including the species in Melandrya^ but it may be allied 

 to species placed by Leconte and Horn in Prot/ialpia. 



Hah. Nikko, Chiuzenji, and xsishimura. I found only four 

 examples. 



Fenlhejapana, Mars. 



This species is like P. ohltquata, in having the scutellum 

 covered with orange-coloured hair. The apical joint of the 

 antenna? is also of the same colour. 



Uah. Common in a white arboreal fungus throughout all 

 the islands. 



Scotodes niponicus, sp. n. 



This species resembles S. anmdatas^ Eschsch., in colour and 

 facies generally, but it is more robust; the sculpture of the 

 elytra is coarser and the tarsi are shorter. The shortness of 

 the tarsus is most conspicuous in the basal joint of the hind 

 foot. 



L. 9^ mill. 



I^Iarseul did not notice these differences, and assigned it to 

 the European species. 1 do not know S. uniformiH^ Motsch. 



Uah. Miyanoshita, in May. Four or five examples only. 



