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rounded ; sides margined, obliquely converging and 

 slightly rounded from base to apex, the apical angles 

 slightly thickened, broadly rounded ; above convex, finely 

 but not closely punctured. Scutellum trigonate, as broad 

 as long. Elytra much broader at the base than the thorax, 

 the shoulders broadly roimded ; sides rounded and con- 

 verging from before the middle to the apex ; above convex, 

 surface more strongly punctured than the thorax, the 

 puncturing on the inner disk indistinctly arranged in 

 longitudinal stria?, the strias more regular on the outer 

 disk ; shining black, the extreme apex rufous. 



Genus Argopus, Fischer. 

 Argopus Fortunei. 



Uotundata, valde convexa, fulva, nitida, pcctore tarsisque 

 piceo-tinctis ; antennis, basi excepta, nigris ; thorace 

 tenuiter sed distincte punctato ; elytris subseriatim punc- 

 tatis, utrisque plaga magna discoidali flava ornatis. 



Long. 2^ lin. 



Ilab. — Northern China. 



Head short, trigonate ; encarpte transverse, oblong- 

 quadrate, contiguous at their apices ; carina narrowly 

 oblong, raised, its apex acute ; clypeus rugose, its apex 

 slightly but distinctly emarginate ; antennfc three-fourths 

 the length of the body, two lower joints fulvous, the rest 

 black ; second and third joints short, equal. Thorax 

 rather more than twice as broad as long ; sides rounded 

 and converging from base to apex ; anterior angle thickened, 

 broadly and obtusely truncate ; basal margin oblique and 

 slightly bisinuate on either side ; upper surface distinctly 

 but not closely punctured. Scutellum narrowly trigonate. 

 Elytra much more strongly punctured than the thorax, 

 the punctures arranged in irregular longitiidinal stria3, 

 interspaces minutely piuicturcd; each elytron with a large 

 flav^ous patch covering the whole of the disk^ leaving 

 a broad fulvous limb. 



Genus Stegnaspea. 



Corpus ovatum, valde convexum. Caput in tho- 

 racem insertum,y«67'6' pcrjiendiculari; antennis 11-artlcu- 

 latis ; carina ct encarpis distinctis. Thorax transversim 



