522 ME. E. SAUNDERS ON SOME JAPANESE BUPEESTTDjE. 



albis atque fuscis, postice fasciis duabus albo-griseis ornatis. Subtus 

 senea, punctata. 



Bronzy black. Head and thorax covered with golden hairs, the latter 

 with a small tuft of brown hairs near the base on each side of the 

 dorsal line and another between it and the margin ; anterior margin 

 emarginate; base with a depression above each of its sinuations. 

 Elytra ornamented with irregular flexuous bands of brown and white 

 hairs on their upper half; below the middle are two greyish white 

 transverse bands, the middle of each brown ; these lower bands are 

 very strongly marked, and give a remarkable character to the species : 

 in some specimens the brown is greatly predominant. Shoulders, 

 which are decidedly prominent, and a tubercle above the apex, smooth ; 

 apex very largely rounded. Beneath bronzy, punctured. 



Length 2 lines. Breadth 1^ line. 



Hab. Japan. 



Tbachys inedita, E. S. Capite thoraceque aeneis, sparse pubescen- 

 tibus. Elytris ameis, rugose punctatis, tribus fasciis griseis irregulari- 

 bus aureo-marginatis et valde sinuatis ornatis. Subtus aeneo-nigra. 



Head golden-yellow, pubescent, depressed on the vertex between the 

 eyes, foveolated above the mouth. Thorax, sides nearly straight, base 

 with a deep median lobe, somewhat sparsely covered with dark golden- 

 yellow hairs. Elytra with the shoulders rather prominent ; sides 

 sinuate below them, then rounded below the middle, and converging 

 to the apex ; surface sparsely covered with short golden hairs, as the 

 thorax, with three irregular zigzag grey bands, the two nearer the 

 apex well marked, the upper one rather obscure ; the grey of the 

 bands is margined on the lower side with golden pubescence. Beneath 

 black-punctured. 



Length 1£ line. Breadth 1 line. 



Hab. Japan. 



Trachys inconspicua, E. S. iEnea, punctata, capillis griseis ob- 

 sita. Thorace postice impresso. Elytris tribus fasciis griseis ornatis, 

 quarum media valde sinuata. 



Short, bronzy, shining, sparsely covered with short grey silvery hairs. 

 Head foveolated between the eyes. Thorax with the base slightly de- 

 pressed and deeply lobed in the centre. Elytra with the shoulders 

 rather prominent, each with a depression at the base above the 

 shoulder ; surface finely punctured, and covered with fine short hairs 

 arranged in lines ; near the middle is an interrupted band of grey silvery 

 hairs consisting generally merely of two spots ; below this is a well- 

 marked zigzag band ; and between it and the apex, and quite close to 

 the latter, another very narrow one; apex rounded. 



Length 1 I line. Breadth \ line. 



Hab. Japan. 



