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smaller Ceton'ia pilifer and roelofsi. It. is a narrow -bodied 

 insect, with the upper surface rather bright green and the 

 head, legs, and lower surface fiery-copper coloured, and 

 marked with fine white dots and lines upon the pronotum, 

 elytra, and pygidiura almost exactly as in P. Icnzi. The 

 clypeus is divided into two rounded lobes, with only slightly 

 rerlexed margins ; the sides of the prothorax are very gently 

 and regularly curved and the base narrowly and not deeply 

 excised before the scutellum and very feebly on each side. 

 The sides of the elytra are strongly excised behind the 

 shoulders and the apical angles are not sharp. The sternal 

 process is small and very little produced. 



Two specimens have been taken by Mr. J. E. A. Lewis. 



The type in the British Museum is a male from Kobe; 

 the specimen from Tanegashima is a monstrosity, with a split 

 pronotum. 



The beetle attributed by Messrs. Waterhouse and Lewis 

 to Protatia submarmorea, Burm., is certainly not that 

 species, and Beitter is probably correct in believing the 

 latter to be synonymous with P. cerata, Er. That species (as 

 mentioned by Burmeister) has the form of P. marmorata, 

 F., the scutellum very short and blunt, and the elytra punc- 

 tured in the scutellar region, none of which features apply 

 to the present species. For it I propose the name 



Protatia cataphracta, sp. n. 



Toto rufo-cuprea, elongata, angusta, nitida, clypeo fere recte truu- 

 cato, margine reflexo, medio vix indentato, capite sat fortiter 

 punctato ; pronoto angusto, medio late fere laevi, lateribus intus 

 fortiter punctatis, extus crebre strigosis, marginibus extends 

 medio subanguiatis, angulis posticis baud rotundatis, basi medio 

 profuude exciso ; scutello laevi, apice haud valde obtuso ; elytris 

 longis, extus sat crebre haud profunde strigosis, postice tenuiter 

 transverse albido-maculatis, apicibus baud spinosis ; pygidio 

 dense transversim strigoso ; pectore aureo-hirto, metasterni 

 lateribus coxisque posticis fortiter strigosis, bic extus acute 

 spinosis : 



<S , abdomine profunde longitudinaliter sulcato : 



$ , pygidio utrinquc oblique impresso. 

 Lojig. 22-24 mm.; lat. max. 12-18 mm. 



Hab. N. Japan : Nikko, L. Junsai, Fusai, Usui Pass. 

 Amongst a do/en specimens th< re is only a single male. 

 The elongate form, coppery-red colour, and shining upper 

 surface, strongly and coarsely striolated at the sides of the 



