260 ME. H. W. BATES ON THE 



centrali a basi usque ultra medium extensa maculisqiie trans- 

 versis duabus inter vittam et apicem, sulpliureis, lineola sub- 

 marginali marginibusque griseis : subtus sulphureo-pubescens ; 

 antennis nigris ; pedibus rufis. Long. lOi millim. 

 Higo. 



Obeeea vittata, Blessig, Hotcb Soc. Ent. Boss. ix. 1873, 

 p. 223. — O. Sylvia, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, ir. p. 261? 



Yokohama ; Tuyama ; Nagasaki. 



Agrees with Blessig's description of the Manchurian insect and 

 also with an example I have received from the Amur. The apex 

 of the elytra is truncated, and" mehr oderweniger ausgerandet." 

 In the sinuation of the elytral truncature and the longer or shorter 

 prolongation of the angles of the truncature there are differences 

 in Mr. Lewis's specimens ; but it seems probable the sinuation is 

 stronger in the Japanese than in the continental form. 



Oberea hebescens (Bates) is very closely allied to this species, 

 but is distinguishable by its yellow undersurface (except apical 

 ventral segment), O. vittata having the breast and middle of the 

 ventral segments always blackish, and by the dark lateral vitta 

 not quite covering the shoulders of the elytra. 



Obeeea niponensis. — O. japonica, Bates, Ann. &f Mag. N. IS. 

 1873, p. 388 (nom. prseocc). 



The name japonica was preoccupied by Thunberg, whose 

 Saperda japonica appears to be an Oberea. Kraatz considers 

 O. marginella, Bates, to be "probably " Thunberg's S. japonica. 

 The very insufficient diagnosis given by Thunberg appears to 

 have led to his species being omitted by all recent writers on the 

 Longicornia. It is not entered in the Munich Catalogue. 



Obeeea seeicans, n. sp. 



O. marginellcB, Bates, quoad formam et sculpturam simillima ; 

 differt thorace nigro sat crebre punctate, nitido, corporeque 

 subtus fere toto fusco-nigro. Pro hoc genere brevis, erecte 

 pilosa, elytris svibtiliter incumbenti-sericeo-pubescentibus ; capite 

 thoraceque nigris nitidis conspicue punctatis ; scutello nigro ; 

 elytris sat late sinuato-truncatis, confuse (dorso versus basin 

 tantum subseriatim) punctatis, cannula laterali obsoleta, 

 fulvis, vitta laterali (humeros haud attingenti) nigris, et parte 



