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lateral carina of tLe elytra near the angular shoulder is not 

 sbarplj pronounced as in tbe typical AglaopMs, but obtuse ; 

 the basal crests are elevated, compressed, and clothed with black 

 hairs. 



PlJEPUEICTn^firS SPECTABILIS, MotScTl. 



Syn. P. nigrohirttis, Lewis. 

 Kobe, north to Sapporo. 



Fam. Lamiidje. 

 Phlyctidola, nov. gen. 



G en. Deucalioni et Dorcadidce affine : differt thoracis spina 

 lateral! plurituberculata etc. Elongato-ovata, convesa, sub- 

 glabra ; caput later antennas latum, parum concavum. Palpi arti- 

 culo terminal! breviter ovato acuminate. Antennjc corpore lon- 

 giores, scapo sicut in Deucalioni oblongo-clavato, articulo 

 tertio cseteris multolongiori, sed baud crassiori, 4°-ll" gradatim 

 parum decrescentibus. Thorax quadratus, medio angulatim dila- 

 tatus ibique plurituberculatus, tuberculo central! (in loco spinae) 

 major!. Elytra regulariter convexa, apice obtusa. Acetabula 

 antica extus late angulata ; intermedia aperta. A-^entris processus 

 intercoxalis latus, ogivalis. Tibiae intermedise medio extus vix 

 tuberculatae sulcisque baud conspicuis. 



The species on which this genus is founded is most nearly allied 

 to the rare Madeiran genus Deucalion, the only structural fja- 

 tures which distinguish it from that form being the widely 

 gaping anterior haunch-sockets and the nearly simple outer edge 

 of the intermediate tibiae. In general form, however, the species 

 much more nearly resembles I'armena, from which it differs in 

 the absence of long pubescence, the rather longer and more 

 oblong scape (much shorter and thicker than in Dorcadidd), and 

 the broad ogival intercoxal process. 



Phltctidola metallica, n. sp. (Plate I. fig, 2.) 

 Cupreo- vel aeneo-fusca, subnuda parum nitida, pilis fulvis 

 curtis adpressis supra elytra maculatim vestita ; scutello dense 

 fulvo-pubescent! ; capite et thorace grosse intricato-rugosis, hoc 

 plagis 2-3 parvis elevatis politis ; elytris sat grosse punctatis sub- 

 rugosis, utrinque costis obtusis saepe interruptis nitidis tribus. 

 Long. 10-11 millim. 



Sapporo ; Nikko ; Oyayama. 



