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Letrotes Lewist, n. sp. Elongata, subcylimlrica, piceo-nigra aut 

 nigra, squamulis albidis lineariformibus sat dense vestita ; antennis 

 pallide rufo-piceis, extrovsum piceis ; thovace vix longiore quam latiore, 

 lateribus fere rectis, apice pauUo convergentibus, siibcylindricoj disco 

 antice breviter excavato, rude rugoso-punetato ; elytris oblongis, 

 parallelis, convexis, infra basin distincte excavatis, spatio basilari 

 distincte elevato, profunde substriatim punctatis (interspatiis rugu- 

 losis), utrinque vittis subelevatis nonnullis instructis ; pedibus elonga- 

 tis. Long. 3^ lin. 



Hah. China, Japan (collected in botli localities by Mr. G-. 

 Lewis). 



Whole body clothed with narrow, adpressed, acute, white scales. 

 Head coarsely rugose-punctate, vertex and front impressed on the 

 mesial line with, a longitudinal groove; face above the clypeus 

 concave ; clypeus and labrum piceous, the former oblique, 

 glabrous, its anterior margin angulate-marginate ; antennte more 

 than three fourths the length of the body, slender, filiform, fulvo- 

 piceous, the outer joints stained with piceous ; first and second 

 equal in length, the latter only slightly thickened, the third 

 nearly one half longer than the second, equal in length to the 

 fourth. Thorax scarcely longer than broad ; sides nearly straight 

 and parallel, only slightly converging at the apex ; above sub- 

 cylindrical, coarsely rugose-punctate ; central portion of the middle 

 disk obsoletely gibbous. Scutellum wedge-shaped, nearly twice 

 as broad as long, its apex obtase, the lower half of its surface 

 rugose. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, subacutely 

 rounded at the apex ; convex, excavated below the basilar space, 

 the latter distinctly thickened ; coarsely and deeply punctm^ed, 

 the punctures arranged in ill-defined longitudinal rows, the 

 puncturing rather finer towards the apex ; interspaces shining, 

 irregularly wrinkled ; on each elytron are three or four slightly 

 raised but distinct vittee. Legs slender, elongate. 



Grenus Scelodonta, Westivood. 



ScELODONTA SiMONij n. sp. Oblonga, convexa, cuprea, nitida, sat 

 dense albido pubescens ; antennis extrorsum nigris ; thorace pube 

 adpressa vestito impresso-strigoso, strigis distincte punctatis ; elytris 

 thorace multo latioribus, a basi ad apicem paullo attenuatis, convexis, 

 infra basin leviter excavatis, huiueris prominentibus ; seriatim punc- 

 tatis, pilis subsquamiformibus gracilibus suberectis in strias longi- 

 tudinales dispositis vestitis. Long. 2 lin. 



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