2 10 i August, 



ON A NEW BEETLE FROM JAPAN. 

 BY G. LEWIS, F.L.S. 



S/s)jiiopJ/oncs,\Viitevh.,^nt. Mo. Mag., xiii, IS7G, p. 125 {Tel ephor like). 



SiSTNOPHORUS DICUROUS, 71. sp. 

 Flavus, nitidus, pubescetis ; capite thoraceque sublcBvihus ; elytris nigris 

 cUstincte punctutis ; ahdomine infuscato. Long., b\ mm. 



Yellow, shining, with elytra and eyes black ; metasternuin and abdomen, except 

 the terminal segment, dusky. Head and thorax nearly smooth, with yellow pubes- 

 cence ; elytra distinctly but not rery closely punctured, with black pubescence ; 

 the antennae and legs are pale yellow, and the claws have a sharp and conspicuous 

 inner tooth. 



The species of this genus when alarmed " simulate death " by drawing the head 

 and thorax completely under the elytra, and while lying thus in the net or umbrella 

 look like simple discs. The structure of the skeleton enables them to do this, as 

 there is only a membranous surface behind the thoracic coxee, and this structure, 

 I consider, brings the genus into the Telephorida. The Cleridce have a cylindrical 

 thorax with no opening behind the anterior cosre, and they cannot, therefore, 

 " feign death " as the Telephoridte do. 



I took two exam])les at Kasliiwagi, in Tamato, in the middle of 

 June. In Ceylon I found three species, which are, I believe, uu- 

 described at present. 



Folkestone: J«He7^A, 1891. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF EUG ASTER (RETRODIBJE) 

 FROM SOMALI LAND, WITH REMARKS ON E. SPINULOSES, LINN. 



BY W. r. KIRBY, F.L.S., 



Assistant in Zoological Department, Sritish Museum (Natural History), S. Kensington, 



Among the many curious Ortlioptera which inhabit the African 

 deserts, the large spiny apterous insects now placed in the restricted 

 family Hetrodidce are not the least remarkable. The species are not 

 numerous, but are generally rare in collections, which has frequently 

 led to the names given to those known to the older writers being 

 applied to several distinct insects. Thus, Eugaster spinulosus, Linn., 

 from Morocco, which is allied to the new species described below, and is 

 excellently figured in Edwards' "Gleanings of Natural History," vol. ii, 

 pi. 285, has sometimes been confounded with the much commoner E. 

 Ouyoni, Luc, from Algeria ; but E. spinulosus is a black and testa- 

 ceous insect, with black spines on the thorax, and a black abdomen 



