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Show 1885.] COLEOPTERA F R O M JAPAN. 197 PEDRILLIA UNIFASCIATA, n. sp. (Plate XL fig, 4.) Black, pubescent; antennae and legs testaceous; a spot at the anterior femora, the apex of the tibiae, and the tarsi and the posterior femora black; thorax closely punctured with three obscure fulvous bands ; elytra with the shoulders, a spot at the apex, and a transverse band near the latter fulvous. Length 1^ line. Head deeply and very closely punctured, the sides of the neck, lower part of the face, and palpi testaceous; the first two joints of the antennae stained with piceous above, the third and fourth joints of equal length. Thorax rather long, the sides strongly produced before the middle in a rounded protuberance, constricted immediately below the latter ; surface closely punctured like the head and covered with rather long fulvous hairs ; the sides, a longitudinal band near the latter, and a much more obscure vitta on the disk fulvous or testaceous. Scutellum thickly covere d with silky yellow pubescence. Elytra convex and parallel, slightly depressed behind the middle, punctured like the thorax but the punctuation much more distantly placed ; an elongate fulvous spot surrounds the shoulder, a round spot is placed close to the apex at the sides, and a transverse band of irregular shape at a little distance from the apex ; the tibiae and tarsi are also closely covered with fulvous hairs; a piceous spot is placed on the middle of the four anterior femora, the posterior ones, together with the apices of all the tibiae and the tarsi, being entirely of that colour ; the first two abdominal segments have a large fulvous spot at the sides, the rest are black. Nikko. A single specimen. Genus OOMORPHUS, Curtis. OOMORPHUS JAPANUS, Sp. 110V. Ovate, convex, narrowed behind, below black, above brownish aeneous ; thorax closely and finely punctured ; elytra more strongly, closely punctate-striate. Length 1 line. Head very finely punctured, transversely grooved between the eyes, the middle of the front sometimes with an obsolete longitudinal groove. Antenna? black, the second joint larger and broader than the four following, the seventh transversely dilated, the eighth very short, the terminal three joints transverse, forming a club. Thorax narrowed in front, twice as broad as long, the sides but slightly rounded ; surface closely, evenly, and finely punctured. Elytra distinctly narrowed behind, more strongly punctured than the thorax, the punctuation arranged alternately in stronger and finer rows of punctures, distinct to the apex. Underside black ; the breast, domen, and legs more or less stained with brownish cupreous. Oyama, Jschiuchi. Smaller and more narrowed behind than our O. concolor, of a bronze not black colour, and the interstices between the larger rows of punctures less finely punctured, the larger rows also much more |