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band just above the middle, a well-marked zigzag band just below it, 



and a short band close to the apex, which are golden pubescent ; 



apex rounded ; sides very finely denticulate posteriorly. Beneath 



bronzy, punctured, covered with golden hairs. 

 Length 4^ lines. Breadth 1^ line. 

 Hab. Japan. 



Sambus quadricolqr, E. S. Capite igneo-cupreo, tumido, vertice 

 canaliculato. Thorace igneo cupreo punctato et striato, lateribus 

 lineaque dorsali albo-pubescentibus. Elytris antice aureo-pilosis, 

 postice nigris, fascia alba utrinque nigro bimaculata ornatis, apicibus 

 rotundatis. Subtus nigro-seneus. 



Head and thorax fiery copper-colour, the former much swollen on the 

 vertex, with a few golden hairs above the mouth. Thorax with the 

 sides rounded in front and slightly emarginate near the posterior 

 angles surface deeply punctate and concentrically striate ; sides and 

 base depressed ; disk very convex ; lateral carina? very strongly 

 marked ; sides and dorsal line grey-pubescent. Elytra with the sides 

 slightly sinuate above the middle ; apex largely rounded ; surface 

 finely rugose ; upper three fifths of elytra golden pubescent ; rest 

 black ; in the middle of the black portion is a grey band, which has 

 two small black spots in it on each elytron ; suture, just above the 

 black part, grey. Beneath and legs bronzy black, covered with de- 

 pressed white hairs. 



Length 2§ lines. Breadth If line. 



Hab. Japan. 



Cryptodactylus auriceps, E. S. Caput aureum, inter oculos im- 

 pressum, rugosum. Thorax niger, transverse rugosus, trifoveolatus, 

 lateribus valde rotundatis. Basi lobata. Elytra nigra, utrinque 

 macula circulari prope suturam, altera oblonga inter earn et inargi- 

 nem, duabusque fasciis valde sinuatis prope apicem, albo- pilosis or- 

 nata, apicibus rotundatis. Subtus punctatus. 



Head golden, impressed between the eyes, and concentrically striate and 

 punctured. Thorax black, with the anterior margin produced, the 

 sides much rounded, and the base deeply bisinuate ; surface concen- 

 trically striated, and with three large foveae, a somewhat round one on 

 the dorsal line near the anterior margin, and an ear-shaped one on 

 each side extending from the base of the dorsal region to the poste- 

 rior angle. Scutellum golden. Elytra black, with an irregular basal 

 band, a circular spot on each side near the suture, an oval longitudinal 

 spot placed slightly below it but nearer the margin, and two zigzag 

 bands above the apex white-pubescent ; surface finely rugose ; apex 

 rounded. Beneath black, punctured. 



Length 3h lines. Breadth 1 line. 



Hab. Japan. 



Agrilus trinotatjjs. iEneus. Capite punctato. Thorace trans- 



