1885.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF JAPAN. 747 



with tlie posterior margin) ; the interstices swollen or irregularly 

 raised, covered, as well as the interior of the impressions, with deep 

 punctures. Scutellam piceous or fulvous, its apex broadly rounded. 

 Elytra not widened behind, rufous or sanguineous, like the head and 

 thorax; each elytron with eight strongly raised and closely approached 

 costse, the space between the first costa and the suture of double 

 the width between the others, the interstices very deeply and 

 regularly impressed with round punctures. Underside and legs 

 black, finely covered with sparing yellow pubescence ; the femora and 

 knees sometimes obscure fulvous ; anterior coxal cavities closed ; 

 claws appendiculate. 



Kiga, Konose, Jchiuchi, Suyama on lillies. 



From any of the similarly coloured European species, A. multl- 

 costata is at once to be separated by the eight closely approached 

 costse, which leave a broader space only between the first and the 

 sutural margin. 



Genus Galerucida, Motsch. 



Galerucida lewisi, sp. nov. (Plate XLYI. fig. 6.) 



Black ; thorax foveolate-puactate ; elytra closely and very deeply 

 semipunctate-striate ; a spot at the shoulder, a transverse narrow 

 sinuate band behind the middle, and a round spot near the apex 

 yellow. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head impunctate ; antennae more than two thirds the length of 

 the body, the second and third joints very short and equal. Thorax 

 transverse, sides nearly straight, slightly widened in front, the 

 anterior angles produced in shape of a small tubercle, surface irregu- 

 larly covered with deep foveolate punctures. Scutellum impunctate. 

 Elytra very deeply and rather closely punctured, the punctures 

 arranged in semiregular rows and sometimes confluent ; the small 

 yellow spot placed at the shoulder smooth and raised, the transverse 

 band below the middle sinuate aud not extending to the suture, the 

 apical spot round and small. 



Oyama. 



This species, of which many specimens were obtained by Mr. 

 Lewis, cannot be mistaken for a variety of G. bifaseiata or G. 

 consoeiata, Baly, on account of the quite different punctuation of 

 the elytra, the interstices of which are impunctate and smooth, the 

 punctures themselves being arranged in single rows. 



Genus Sphenoraia, Clark. 



Sphenoraia intermedia, sp. nov. 



Black ; thorax strongly and remotely punctured ; elytra metallic 

 blue, strongly subgeminate punctate-striate, the interstices finely 

 punctured. 



Length 2 lines. 



Noheyi. A single specimen. 



The only two species with which the present one can be compared 

 are S. fulgida and 8. magica, Harold. Both are, however, of double 



