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deep transverse groove. Antennae as long as the body, black, the 

 first joint somewhat angulate near the apex, the second short, third 

 and fourth joints of equal length. Thorax about one half broader 

 than long, the sides rounded before the middle and narrowed towards 

 the apex ; basilar sulcation deep, straight, and bounded at the sides 

 by a perpendicular groove ; rest of the surface entirely impunctate. 

 Elytra slightly wider at the base than the thorax, parallel, slightly 

 narrowed towards the apex, the shoulders limited within by a 

 longitudinal depression, the punctured striae fine and regular, the 

 interstices with a few very minute punctures ; at the sides near the 

 apex an oblong obscure fuscous spot is placed ; femora fulvous ; 

 tibiae and tarsi black. 



Subashiri. A single specimen. 



The punctures of the elytra are very distantly placed, and form 

 about four double rows, which become more obsolete at the sides and 

 the apex. 



Crepidodera chloris, Foudr. 



The Japanese specimens before me do not differ in any way from 

 the European form ; the species has not hitherto been recorded 

 from Japan. 



Genus Liprus, Motsch. 



LiPRUS NIGRITUS, Sp. nOV. 



Black, tibiae and lower joints of the antennae testaceous. Thorax 

 rugose-punctate. Elytra punctate-striate, the interstices obsoletely 

 costate. 



Length 1| line. 



Head impunctate, black, shining, the space between the eyes 

 slightly depressed, the frontal tubercles very small. Antennae very 

 nearly as long as the body, the six lower joints pale fulvous, the 

 rest black, the second and the two following joints slightly increasing 

 in length. Thorax square-shaped, with a distinct transverse groove 

 parallel and at some distance from the posterior margin, surface 

 finely rugose throughout. Elytra deeply depressed below the base, 

 regularly and distinctly punctate-striate, the interstices when viewed 

 sideways costate and sparingly covered with white pubescence. 

 Legs testaceous, the femora piceous ; posterior tibiae slightly curved. 



Oyana. Four specimens. 



Ciiapuis, in his ' Genera des Coleopteres,' has made no mention 

 of the genus Liprus, which was probably unknown to him. I must 

 refer here to my remarks about the genus in the ' Annals of the 

 Genoa Museum,' vol. ii. 1885, p. 71. The open coxal cavities 

 would place Liprus near Diphavfaca and Lacfica, from botli of which 

 it differs, however, in most other structural characters, notably in the 

 perpendicular sides of the elytra, a peculiarity unknown amongst 

 numerous other genera of HalticirKE. I am not quite certain 

 whether the species described here is not the L. punctalo-striatus 

 of Motschulsky, from which, according to the description, it differs 



