66 Mr. G. Lewis on 'EiXoiyXxd^is, from Japan. 



tate, the first narrowly red at base, both very minutely strigose 

 under a high power, the second with lateral margins piceous ; 

 scutellum and elytra red, the latter distinctly punctate-striate ; 

 interstices with fine, somewhat irregular punctures, although 

 sometimes appearing to be set in rows ; first three joints of 

 antennge and club piceous, intermediate joints sometimes 

 and tarsi always reddish. Prosternum rather rugose, strige 

 straight, turned inwards anteriorly, but fairly wide apart ; 

 abdominal segments two to five margined with yellow 

 posteriorly. 



Three examples, on Eakuwayama, near Hitoyoshi, May 3, 

 1881. 



Cyrtotriplax niponensis, Lewis. 



Cyrtotriplax m'po7iensis, Lewis, Ent. Mon. Mag. xi. p. 78 (1874). 



This species is wholly black, except the base of the an- 

 tennse, the palpi, and coxse, which are pitchy red. The pro- 

 sternal lines are slightly curved at the tips. It varies in size 

 from 3 to 4 millira., and occurs commonly at Nikko and 

 Miyanoshita ; and I obtained it also sparingly in all the 

 islands, including Sado. Reitter records it from Siberia. 



Cyrtotriplax soUvaga. 



Ovata, nigra, nitida, ore antennisque piceis ; elytris in medio 

 obscure rufo-punctatis. L. 4^ mill. 



Black ; head and thorax evenly and somewhat sparsely 

 punctured (minutely strigose under microscope) ; elytra rather 

 strongly punctate-striate, with interstices very finely and 

 sparsely puncticulate. Below the humeral angle on the sixth 

 stria there is an obscure reddish spot. Prosternal process 

 raised and triangular, the stria meeting at the anterior edge, 

 thus A, completely enclosing the space between ; and this 

 last character will distinguish it from any other Japanese 

 species at present known. 



I obtained this in the beech-forest to the south of the lake 

 at Hakone, April 23, 1880. 



Cyrtotriplax circumcincta. 



Late ovata, nigra, nitida, punctata ; elytris parum latis, flavo-rufis ; 

 antennis pedibusque nigris. L. 4 mill. 



Black and shining ; head and thorax somewhat densely 

 but not coarsely punctate, minutely strigose (very distinctly 

 so under microscope) ; elytra punctate-striate, interstices 

 wholly punctulate, at the base, outside the fourth stria, red, 

 after the middle this red margin narrows to the seventh stria. 

 Beneath, the anterior portion of the metasternum and first 

 segment of abdomen are transversely red ; the four poste- 



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