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colorous ; above, head between the eyes, thorax except the 

 anterior margin, and three large spots on eaeh elytron black. 

 The elytra are very bright red, with two semicircular spots at 

 the base behind the scutelluni, each one touching tlie suture; 

 in the middle of the dorsal region are two lobe-shaped spots, 

 each one longer than the two scutellar spots together, well 

 separated at the suture, but externally leave the epipleura 

 alone red ; the two posterior black spots are well before the 

 apex, and more transverse than the dorsal pair, and leave 

 only a narrow division of red at the suture, 



Hab. Kiushiu, and on the main island. Oyayama, Iken- 

 chaiya, and Nikko, five or six examples. 



ISOCLERUS, gen. nov. 



Body with an outline resembling Thanasimus, but the tarsi 

 agree closely with those of Thaneroderas. The eyes are 

 coarsely granulate, rather prominent, and anteriorly semi- 

 circular in outline ; the posterior part, which is in some 

 genera cut out, is nearly straight, but the contiguous part of 

 the head is swollen and convex, so that the limit of the eye is 

 only indicated by its granulations. Antennee, first joint 

 bulbiform, with a short funicle ; second and third of equal 

 length, constricted slightly in the basal half ; fourth to 

 eighth shorter and moniliform ; ninth to eleventh form a 

 lax club ; ninth and tenth are equal to each other in 

 length and breadth, the terminal joint being conical and 

 nearly as long as the two preceding joints ;• femora short and 

 robust, the basal joints of the anterior tarsi are conspicuously 

 dilated and short, claws simple. 



Isoclerus pictusy sp, n. 



Rufo-l)runiieu8, sparse hirsutus ; capita anteunisque (basi excepta) 

 nigris ; thorace rufo ; elytris regione scutellari, macula humerali, 

 fasciis mediis et posticis late nigris ; pedibus rufis. 



L. 3| mill. 



Elongate, hirsute, rather shining ; the head black, rather 

 thickly and somewhat coarsely punctured ; the antenna3, two 

 basal joints red, the rest infuscate ; the thorax red, with the 

 margin behind the neck black, punctured like the liead ; the 

 elytra more coarsely punctured than the thorax, black, with two 

 pale fasciae, one before, the other behind the middle ; the first 

 is narrowly connected with humeral angle, which is also pale ; 

 this leaves a large circular spot round the scutellum and a 



