the Cistelidse (Sec. of Japan. 



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Fig. 9. 



Oncomera venosa, sp. n. 



Elongata, pallido bruunea ; capite inter oculos, thoraco partini 



elytrisquo costis iiifuscatis. 

 L. 14 mill. 



Elongate, dull pale brown ; the head, eyes prominent, fore- 

 head and area between the eyes dusky, neck sometimes 

 flavous ; tiie thorax darkish brown, with a median longitudinal 

 space, which widens out before and beiiind, pale ; the elytra 

 liaveaclose leather-like sculpture, with dusky-coloured costae, 

 outer costa complete and joined to the 

 second over the raetasternum by a dif- 

 fused coloration on a somewhat raised 

 patch in the interstice, behind this patch 

 the inner costa is usually interrupted and 

 bent towards the suture, it reappears over 

 the hind coxaj and again before the apex ; 

 outside the long outer costa is a dark line, 

 which towards the apex breaks up into 

 dusky points (but this is a variable cha- 

 racter), the lateral rim of the elytra is also 

 dusky ; the antennje dusky brown, with 

 the two basal joints paler ; the legs pale, 

 with the apices of the femora dusky ; male, 

 posterior thighs largely swollen, and the 

 hind tibiae much shorter and thicker than those of female. 

 The colour and form of the elytral costoB are somewhat 

 variable ; sometimes the costai join three times, as in lig. 9. 



Ilab. Kiga, Hakone, and ^liyanoshita. Repeatedly beaten 

 from pear- and cherry-blossoms in May. 



(Edemera sexualis^ Marseul. 



This species differs from all in this series in the enlargeil 

 femora of the male being yellow, and in the female the 

 abdominal segments are of the same coloyr. 



Bab. Nagasaki. In tiie tlowcrs of Deutzia and Spircea in 

 spring. 



(Edemera montaua, Marseul. 



CEdrmira lucidicullii, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. i. p. 174 (18GG). 

 Ojicomera vitticoUis, id. ibid. 



Motschulsky's descriptive lines seem to refer to one species, 

 but from their peculiar construction appear to have been 

 written at different times. Oncomera vitticoUis is compared 

 to One. jlavipeSj evidently meaning CEdemera fiavipes^ Fabr. 



Ann. (L' Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 6. VoK xv. 31 



