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Antennae small and slender, the basal joint quite concealed, 

 the second slender though broader than those following, these 

 minute and similar to one another ; club rather long, very di- 

 stinctly biarticulate. Head flat, broad ; rather short ; eyes quite 

 conspicuous, not globular. Thorax strongly transverse, the sides 

 evenly rounded in front and behind, the front angles prominent 

 but only short, the front margin in the middle truncate, not 

 lobed, the sides explanate ; colours fuscous, reddish at sides ; 

 surface dull, without distinct sculpture, with a few fine pale 

 depressed scales. Elytra dull, with very fine lines of sculpture, 

 and with a few very small pale setae ; the lateral margins, as well 

 as those of the thorax, extremely densely and finely crenulate, 

 and fringed with excessively short, minute, contiguous white setae. 



Nikko, and on the Wada-toge in the month of August; three 

 examples. 



CiCONES. 



Cicones, Curt. Brit. Ent. iv. pi. 149; Er. Ins. Deutsch. iii. p. 272. 



The characters by which this genus can be distinguished from 

 Syiichita will require reconsideration, as I am unable to find in 

 the type of Oicoiies, viz. Syncliita variegata, Hellw., the structure 

 of the antennary grooves described by Erichson, and which is 

 the only character of importance yet pointed out to distinguish 

 the two. In Cicones, as represented by C. variegata, the an- 

 tennary grooves are very short, and in SyncJiita, as represented 

 by S.juglandis, they are still shorter, but of a similar character, 

 and in other species they appear to be intermediate. Thus I 

 only place the Japanese species in Cicones because of the close 

 afiinity of C. ocellatus with the European C. variegatus. C. dito- 

 moides appears to be a very intermediate form; while the 

 N.- American S. parvula is, so far as facias goes, quite a Cicones. 



Cicones oculatus, n. sp. 



Oblongo-ovalis, fuscus, antennis pedibusque rufis, elytris testaceis, 

 fusco-signatis ; oculis convexis. Long. 3 millim. 



Antennae with joints 3-9 small, the tenth joint forming a very 

 large circular club. Thorax transverse, a little narrowed behind, 

 the sides slightly curved at the front angles, which are scarcely 

 prominent ; fuscous black, the surface rather uneven, not di- 

 stinctly sculptured, but variegate with some patches of cinereous 

 setae. Elytra pale red, with some irregular transverse black 



