258 rApHi, 



sides sinuate ; anterior angles rectangular, deflexcd, from these the sides are rounded 

 rather suddenly, becoming almost parallel again before the base ; margined with a 

 strongly impressed line, which does not meet the front margin, — the space between this 

 line and the side being flattened and widest in front ; base with an impressed trans- 

 verse line, and the usual sulci very short ; disc fusco-piceous. Elytra a little wider 

 at the shoidder than the thorax, thence widened evenly to beyond the middle, riar- 

 rowed gradually to the apex, of a uniform testaceous colour, clothed with a very fine 

 pubescence of the same tint, very obsoletely punctured. Legs pitchy-red ; apex of 

 the femora and tibiae darker. 



Of this ciirioiis species I haxe seen but a single specimen, wliicli 

 is iu Mr. G. Lewis's collection from Naarasaki. 



Family CUCUJID.E. 

 Genus Ino, Castelnau.* 

 Ino quadeinotata, sp. n. 



Nicjro-picea, niticla; capite, tlwrace, ahdominecpie crehre, elytris par- 

 cins,pu7ictatis ; liis maculis duabiis cdbidis, anteriore ohJongd; antcnnarutn 

 hasi, tihiis tarsisque rujis. Long. 2 Jin. 



Tlie species now described adds anotlier to the tropical forms 

 already known to exist iu Japan. Of tlie four species of Ino described, 

 two are from New Guinea, one from IMadagascar, one from Guadeloupe. 

 Ino quadrinotf/fa would seem allied to /. frepidi, Pascoe. 



Head as wide as the thorax, eyes i-ather prominent. Sides of the thorax a very 

 little widened from the base to about one-third of their length, thence narrowed 

 strongly, and iu a straight line to the base, the angle at which they would meet being 

 rounded off, so that the width of the base is equal to that of the straight portion 

 from the anterior to the middle angle. Antennae a little longer than the head and 

 thorax, their basal joint moderately swollen and red, the third half as long again as 

 second, both of which are rufo-piceous ; 4, 5 and 6 bead-shaped, a little longer than 

 wide ; 7 — 10 widest at apex ; 11 oblong. Elytra covering more than half the abdo- 

 men, but leaving the two last segments and part of the third from the apex exposed, 

 widened from the base for two-thirds their length, thence rounded into the suture ; 

 each with two pale spots, the anterior on the shoidder and oblong, the posterior 

 near the apex and rounded, but both are ill-defined. The abdomen is widest where 

 it quits the elytra, which it there equals in width, and its margin is rather 

 elevated. Femora stout, pitchy-black, tibiae pitchy-red, tarsi red. 



Six individuals taken by Mr. G. Lewis are before mo. 



Generally distributed in Kiusbiu ; taken by Ideating old faggots, 

 and once in great profusion, in May, under bark of the vegetable- wax 

 tree. 



Eusper : March llth, 1873. 



• 1835 : Ino, Leach, in Lepkloptcra, 1819. — Eds. 



