the Cistelidffi tfec. of Japan. 437 



short inconspicuous carina before the nuikllc of tlie neck, 

 constricted behind the eyes, mouth-organs reddish testaceous ; 

 the thorax hmger than wide, widest a little behind the neck, 

 scarcely narrowed behind, sculptured like the head, with 

 three shallow ill-defined impressions — one before the scutellum, 

 one on each side of the widest part ; the elytra densely 

 sculptured and somewhat o])aque, lateral costa com))lete and 

 well-raised, the next less elevated, and the third again is less 

 eonspicuous ; the antenn;\3 dull reddish brown, two ba^^al joints 

 darker; the legs same colour, femora darker, tibiai bispurred. 



1 think I am right in assigning this curious species to 

 Xanthochroa ; it has the facies somewhat of the female of 

 (J neon} era venosa. 



Hah. Sapporo. One female example. 



Xanthochroa Ililleri^ Harold. 



" Rufo-tcstacea vel lurido-testacea ; antennis basi, femoribus antice 

 apice, posticis cum tibiis omuino fere fuscis ; cJ femoribus anticis 

 crassioribus." 



L. 11-13;! mill. 



Five basal joints of the antenna3 usually infuscate, the 

 others reddish brown. 



Hah. Osaka, Shiukano, Junsai, and Sapporo. Occurs in 

 July and August. 



Xanthochroa luteipennisy Mars. 



This species may be recognized from the others of this 

 series by its having yellowish-brown elytra, but being other- 

 wise entirely black. 



Hah. Osaka, Nikko, Fukui, Nishimura, and Sapporo. 



EoBiA, Semenow. 

 Eobia, iSemenow, Ilor. Soc. Ent. Koss. xxviii. p. 4oo, uota (1894). 

 This genus is founded to receive : — 



Asclera cineretpenms,Motsch. Bull. Mosc. p. 173 (1866). 

 Ananca japoniea, liar. Abh. Brem. p. V66 (1876). 

 Sessinia japoniea^ ilar. Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. p. 82 

 (1878). 



now 



Sessinia remained uncharacterized until 1894 ; the type is 

 w livida, F. Ananca is a name proposed by Fairmaire in 

 1863, but not yet characterized. The genus Nacerdochroa 

 Beitt. Wien. ent. Zeit. xii. p. 113, 1893, is very close 

 indeed to Eobia] it has the same constriction in, or false joint 



