1874. 



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been proposed, and which is from the collection of Mr. Andrew 

 Murray, is, on the whole, better referred, perhaps, to my genus 

 Brachi/scapus than to any other of the numerous forms of the sub- 

 family Cossonides. For although it is not altogether impossible that 

 it may eventually be found to constitute the type of a closely-allied 

 group, it has, nevertheless, so much in common with Brachyscapus, not 

 merely in its intensely black, deeply sculptured surface, and rather 

 narrowed, oval prothorax, but likewise in its comparatively large 

 scutellum, and the structure of its exceedingly sunken and not very 

 widely separated eyes, that I think it is wiser (for at all events the 

 present) to regard it as a member of that genus than to establish a 

 separate one for its reception. Its prinid facie appearance is very 

 much that of a large Pldoeophagus ; but, apart from all other charac- 

 ters, its conspicuously developed scutellum will at once distinguish it 

 from that genus.. 



Teignmouth : October, 1874. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW JAPANESE LYCOPERDINA. 

 BT THE EEV. H. S. QOEHAM. 



Ltcopeedina castaxeipennis, sjj. n. 



? . Ovata, picea, nitida, parcius sat fort iter punctata, tliorace 

 clytrisque convexioribus, his rufo-castaneis. Lonrj. tin. 3. 



Allied to L. dux, Gorh., distinguished by its larger and more con- 

 vex thorax, which is especially more enlarged in front ; the elytra are 

 also proportionally wider in the middle and more convex. Head and 

 thorax pitchy, very feebly but visibly punctured, the latter a little 

 longer than wide, with the sides sinuate, hind angles right ; basal sulci 

 longer than in X. dux, slightly arcuate, and well marked, as well as 

 the transverse basal impression. Elytra nhoi't oval, their sides more 

 rounded than in L. dux, of a uniform chestnut-red, scarcely lighter at 

 the apex. Legs and antcnnso pitchy-black, tarsi and extreme apex of 

 the latter rufous. 



Hab., Japan. 



Two specimens, presenting the above differences from L. dux, ai'o 

 from the collection of Mr. G. Lewis. The species has more of the 

 general appearance of the North American L. fcrrucjinea, but is easily 

 separated by its darker antenna), legs, head, and thorax. They are 

 both females. 



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