BUPKESTID^ or JAPA]Sr. 337 



Tkachys eximia, sp. □. 



Aureo-cuprea, nitida ; elytris dense griseo-pubescentibus in regione 

 scutellari et apice exceptis ; subtus senea. L. 3 millim. 



The outline of this pretty species agrees with T. Lewisii, 

 Saund. ; it belongs to a section in the genus with " the body 

 depressed, thorax flattened out at the sides ; elytra with a carina 

 above the margin " (Z. c. p. 519). The head is almost impunctate, 

 forehead angularly impressed, with a median line in the im- 

 pression ; the thorax with large shallow, sometimes confluent, 

 punctures at the sides, finely rugose on disk, pilose, base tri- 

 sinuous ; the elj'tra very densely and conspicuously clothed with 

 greyish pilosity, except a triangular space round the scutellum 

 and a smaller region at the apex. The spaces are finely rugose 

 and of a golden-coppery colour. The legs and underside are 

 seneous. 



Sab. Kiushiu. Ten examples taken in the Higo forests. 



Trachts Saundeesi, sp. n. 



Suboblonga, capite tlioraceque aureo-pilosis ; elytris nigris, fasciis 

 coiispicue flexuGsis, griseo-sericeis ornatis. L. 3-4 miUim. 



This species in outline and size agrees with T. suhhicornis, 

 Mots., but the coloration is like that of T. auricollis, Saund. 

 T. auricollis, Saund., is very broad-shouldered, which gives it a 

 triangular outline, and it occurs chiefly in S. Japan. 



Hah. Main island. Sixteen examples taken at various places 

 on the Nakasendo. 



Brachts salicis, sp. n. 



Parum convexa ; capite thoraceque seneis, nitidis, vix punctatis ; fionte 

 valide excavata utrinque bifoveolata ; elytris nigro-cyaueis, fasciis griseis 

 ornatis. L. 3 millim. 



The head and thorax brightly aeneous, the latter a little 

 punctate on the sides ; the forehead is deeply excavated, with two 

 small but very distinct fovese behind the antenn;© ; the elytra are 

 blackish blue, little rugose and sparsely punctate, with four 

 griseous fasciae, the basal fascia is sometimes obliterated, the 

 third most flexuous, the fourth nearly straight. 



This is the only species of this genus known from the Oriental 

 region. 



Hab. Main island. On sallow at Subashiri, Miyauoshita, and 

 Kioto. 



