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Leprotes Lewist, n. sp. Elongata, subcylindnca, piceo-nigra aut 

 nigra, squamulis albidis liiicarifonnibus sat dense vestita ; antennis 

 pallide rufo-piccis, extrorsum piceis ; thorace vix longiore quara latiore, 

 lateribus fere rectis, ajjice panllo convergentibus, siibcylindrico, disco 

 antiee breviter excavato, rude rugoso-punctato ; elytris oblongis, 

 parallelis, convexis, infra basin distincte excavatis, spatio basilar! 

 distincte elevato, profuude substriatim puuctatis (interspatiis rugu- 

 losis), utriuque vittis subelevatis nonnuUis instructis ; pcdibus elonga- 

 tis. Long. 3j lin. 



Hah. Cliina, Japan (collected in both 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 Hue with a longitudinal groove; face above the clypeus 

 concave ; clypeus and labrum piceous, the former oblique, 

 glabrous, its anterior margin augulate-marginate ; antennae 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 ouly slightly thickened, tlie third 

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

 fourth. Thorax scarcely longer than broad ; sides nearly straight 

 and parallel, only slightly convergiug 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 obtuse, 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 punctured, 

 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 vittie. Legs slender, elongate. 



Genus Scelodois'Ta, Westioood. 



ScELODONTA SiMONi, n. sp. Oblonga, convexa, euprea, nitida, sat 

 dense albido pubescens ; antennis extrorsum nigris ) thorace pubc 

 adpressa vestito impresso-strigoso, strigis distincte punctatis ; elytris 

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

 infra basin leviter excavatis, humcris prominentibus ; seriatim punc- 

 tatis, pilis subsquamiformibus gracilibus subcrectis in strias longi- 

 tudinales dispositis vestitis. Long. 2 lin. 



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