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prolonged and transversely depressed in the middle ; elytra 

 red and rugose. I know the male only. 

 Captured at Miyanoshita, May 1880. 



ScMzotus auritus. 



Elongatus, niger, subnitidus ; capite inter oculos elevato, ante oculos 

 profunde escavato. L. 9 mill. 



Black, rather shining ; elytra alone reddish brown. Head 

 a little transverse, with the region between the eyes greatly 

 elevated, the elevation or protuberance being divided into two 

 portions by a median depression ; the surface is distinctly but 

 not densely punctured ; this protuberance is excavated 

 anteriorly, and within the excavation are long flavous hairs. 

 The region between the antennae is transversely canaliculate, 

 with the space anterior to it roughly sculptured, with two 

 rather deep lobe-shaped foveas. The thorax is transverse, dis- 

 tinctly punctured, and has the usual depressions of the genus 

 on either side and in the middle. Scutellum black, a little 

 prolonged; elytra rugose, not much dilated behind. The 

 tarsi are rather slender, with pale claws. The female has a 

 transverse depression between the eyes and the antennge ; but 

 it is not deep and does not quite approach the eyes. The 

 first joint of the antennae is much constricted before the base 

 in both sexes, and the anterior portion is somewhat globular 

 in the male. 



Six specimens were taken on the plain of Fujisan and one 

 on Ontake. 



ScMzotus gihhifrons. 



Elongatus, niger ; capite regione inter oculos perconvexa ; thorace 

 basi auguste rufo. L. 10 mill. 



Elongate, black ; posterior margins of the thorax narrowly 

 red ; elytra reddish brown. Head with a well-marked oval 

 boss between the eyes, shining and distinctly punctured; 

 forehead slightly and narrowly elevated between the antennaj, 

 with the space intervening between the eyes depressed. The 

 surface of the thorax is uneven, but has little to distinguish the 

 species from its congeners ; the anterior angles are round. The 

 scutellum is black, rather lengthened, depressed transversely in 

 the middle, and posteriorly more acuminate than in 8. auritus. 

 Elytra as in preceding species. The female is very like the 

 male, except that the interocular space is simply convex and 

 the antennae less pectinate. 



Five examples, found on Oyayama in Hiogo, May 1881. 



