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ance to the specimens ; but this is not always the ease ; the 

 club of the antennae is infuscate. Beneath the body is wholly 

 red, and anteriorly the prosternal lines are widely separate 

 and very slightly bent inwards. Legs red and not robust. 



I took a small series at Fukushima, July 28, 1881, one at 

 Kashiwagi in June, and later I received it from Higo. 



CyrtotripJax maculifrons. 



Late oyata, nigra, nitida ; capite basi transversim rufo ; elytris 

 distincte piinctato-striatis, mterstitiis sparsim piinctulatis, rufis, 

 antice bimaculatis, postice fasciis duabus latis commimibus ; 

 antennarum funiculo tarsisque rufis. L. 3-3 1 mill. 



Eather broadly ovate, black ; head and thorax equally 

 punctured, the first red between the eyes, the second wholly 

 jjlack ; scutellum and elytra red, latter with two large, rather 

 transverse, black spots before the middle and beginning 

 inwardly in the centre of the second interstice, and covering 

 five stride, before the apex is a large black spot common to 

 both elytra, being joined at the suture, which leaves the apex 

 and a narrow marginal space red. Beneath, all the abdominal 

 segments are red ; the prosternum is broad at the base, the 

 sti'ias leaving a triangular space, widest at base ; anteriorly the 

 stride are incurved, but terminate moderately apart. 



Found on Oyama, May 25, 1880, and two others came 

 from Higo in the spring of the following year. 



Cyrtotriplax discalis. 



Ovata, nigra, nitida ; antennis tarsisque piceis, scutello rufo ; elytris 

 punctato-striatis, interstitiis subtiliter punctulatis, rufis, posticia 

 disci late nigris. L. 3-3;^ mill. 



Ovate, black ; head more coarsely punctured than thorax, 

 the latter with punctures much scattered, and under the micro- 

 scope the surface is seen to possess a minute mosaic-like 

 sculpture ; the elytra are red at the base for nearly one third 

 of their length, when the disk posteriorly becomes black, 

 leaving only a narrow margin red. Beneath, the surface is 

 sculptured minutely, like the thorax ; the last segments of 

 the abdomen have reddish margins ; the mesosternum more 

 transverse than usual in the genus ; prosternal stri^ straight 

 at sides and anteriorly slightly turned inwards. 



Taken at Nikko and Kashiwagi. Two examples only. 



Cyrtotrtplax rujipennis. 



Ovata, nigra, nitida ; elyti"is rufis, distincte punctato-striatis, 

 interstitiis subtiliter punctulatis ; subtus abdomine marginali tes- 

 taceo. L. 4 mill. 



Black ; head and thorax sparsely and not coarsely punc- 

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