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Show 1885.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF JAPAN. 743 6*. Head impunctate, deeply grooved between the antennae. Eyes large and prominent. Antennae black or fuscous, twice as long as the body, the second joint short, the third more than three times as long, the rest more elongate and slender. Thorax subquadrate, one half broader than long, all the angles produced in a tooth, the sides straight; surface somewhat depressed at the disk, remotely punctured at the sides and near the basal margin, the middle of the disk almost impunctate. Scutellum smooth, impunctate, black. Elytra parallel, rather convex, much more strongly punctured than the thorax, and the punctuation arranged in very close irregular rows, the interstices slightly wrinkled at the sides. Legs blackish, the apices of the tibiae and the tarsi sometimes obscure testaceous. 5 . Eyes much smaller and less prominent, the third joint of the antenna? only one half longer than the second. Nikko, Kobe, Yuyama. Genus LUPERODES, Motsch. LUPERODES N1GRIPENNIS, Motsch. Two specimens from Obaru I must refer to this species, with the description of which they agree very nearly. In one of the Japanese specimens the first joint of the antennae is fulvous, and the sides of the head are marked with black ; all the rest agrees with Mots-chulsky's description. In the other, which is of much smaller size, the head and the abdomen are entirely black, and the apices of the femora are more or less testaceous. In the absence of more specimens for comparison, I cannot say whether the Japanese insects may represent another species or varieties of Motschulsky's type. Genus GALERUCELLA, Crotch. G A L E R U C E L L A N I G R O M A R G I N A T A , sp. nov. (Plate XLVI. fig. 10.) Narrowly elongate, parallel; black; lower part of the face and the thorax testaceous, the latter with three spots; elytra rugosely punctured, finely pubescent, testaceous, the sutural and lateral margin narrowly black ; legs testaceous. Length 2 lines. Head rugose-punctate, black ; the frontal tubercles and the lower part testaceous. Labrum black. Antennae half the length of the body, black, the two basal joints testaceous below, the third joint very slightly longer than the fourth. Thorax twice as broad as long, the sides distinctly angulate at the middle, the posterior angles acute and strongly obliquely shaped; surface with an obsolete depression at the sides, rather strongly rugose-punctate, testaceous; a round black spot is placed at each side and a more square-shaped one at the middle. Scutellum black, finely punctured. Elytra testaceous, the disk slightly darker, the sutural and lateral margins narrowly edged with black; the surface very closely punctured, the |