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dorso medio longitudinaliter paullo elevato, versus suturam pos- 

 tice depresso tuberibus centrobasalibus obtusis; antennis at 

 pedibus fusco-rufls, illarum articulis a tertio basi ciuereis, tibiis 

 apice tarsisque nigris. Long. 7 millim. 



Higo ; Tuyama. 



Belongs to Lacordaire's group MtoUdes, and agrees witb tbe 

 genus Sydonia (founded on a species from Singapore) in its cylin- 

 drical unarmed tborax and the shortness of the third antennal joint 

 (shorter than tbe fourth). The form of the apices of the elytra 

 appears also not to be very different from that of the typical 

 species. The obtuse raised line down the middle of the elytra 

 continues to the produced outer angle of the apical truncature, 

 increasing in elevation. 



G-EAPHiDESSA, nov. gen. 



Gen. Tetrorece (White) affinis et similis, sed differt antenuarum 

 scapo gracilius oblongo nee basi subito constricto. Corpus sub- 

 liueare, sparsim setosum, postice angustatum. Caput exsertum, 

 inter antennas concavum, fronte brevi ; oculi grosse granulati, 

 lobis ioferioribus magnis, latis : tubera antennifera supra divari- 

 cata sat elevata. Antenna? corpore paullo longiores, infra longe 

 sed sparsim ciliatse, scapo oblongo-subconico, articulo tertio 

 quam quartus, breviori, 5-9 paullulum, 10-11 multo, brevioribus. 

 Thorax sat elongatus, subcylindricus, dorso insequali et bitubercu- 

 lato, tuberculo lateraii conico, valido, mediano. Elytra anguste 

 oblonoa, versus apicem angustata, apice oblique truncata, dorso 

 anteriori depresso, carinula utrinque obtusa centro-basali, penicilla 

 parva sed alta cristata. Sterna inter coxas subplana ; acetabula 

 antica extus hiantia, intermedia clausa. Pedes modice elongata ; 

 femora clavata ; tibiae intermedise extus prope medium sinuatse, 

 et usque ad apicem hirsutse. 



Belongs to tb e group Estolides, and in form and markings re- 

 sembles the New-Zealand genus Tetrorea, from which it differs 

 in tbe more oblong, less clavate scape, the relatively shorter 

 third joint, and the scantier pilosity of the antennae, as also in the 

 less strongly clavate femora. 



GrEAPHIDESSA VENATA, n. Sp. 



Parva, rufescens, capite thoraceque impunctatis, lituris griseo- 

 sericeis, elytris utrinque versus apicem lineis subtilibus non- 

 nullis confluentibus maculisque griseo-albis ; sparsim nigro-setosa. 



