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DESCRIPTION OF A SECOND SrECIES OF APnANOCIlPEALUS, 

 WOLLASTON, FEOM JAPAN. 



BY E. C. BYE. 



Subsequently to tlie publication (Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, p. 278) of 

 tbe cbaracters of the above curious genus, two examples Lave been 

 detected among some beetles taken by Mr. George Lewis in Japan, 

 evidently referable to a second species of it, and wbich I dedicate to 

 the founder of tbe genus, as follows : — ■ 



ApHANOCEPHALUS WoLLASTOKI, Sp. 11. 



Rotundatus, hemisphmricus, nitidus, levissiine ccneo-micans, suprd, valde convexus, 

 glaher, suffuse ferntgineus, pedihus antennisque dilutiorihus ; prothorace crebre sat 

 fortifer puncfafo, elytris pimciis irregidarihus, multo majorihus at minus concinnis 

 necnon minus crebris, punctulis subtilissimis vix perspiciendis interspersis, ohsitis. 



Long. Corp. f lin. 



Hahitat "Hiogo" in insult! "Nipon" japonicd, sub foliis dejectis a Doni, 

 Cr. Lewis repertus. 



As far as external generic cbaracters, tbis species appears to 

 accord with tbe type, A. hcsmisphcericus, Woll. ; but its very much 

 smaller size, lighter color, and stronger punctuation show a consider- 

 able range in the specific attributes of the genus. Apart from these, 

 the only noticeable difference is that the prothorax is more transverse, 

 with the anterior margin more decidedly truncate. The larger punc- 

 tures on the elytra are coarse, for so small an insect, but they are 

 not sharply defined. 



Two specimens were taken in 1869 by Mr. Gr. Lewis, under 

 leaves near Maiyasan Temple, Hiogo, Japan. 

 Parkfield, Putney : November, 1873. 



ON NEW COLEOPTERA FROM JAPAN. 

 BY T. VEENOK WOLLASTON, M.A., F.L.S. 



The species enunciated in the present paper, one of which 

 {PhcBnoceplialus castaneus) I have treated as a new generic type, were 

 obtained by Mr. Gr. Lewis in Japan ; and it is at his request that I 

 have examined them, in order that their citation in a general catalogue, 

 on which he is engaged, might be rendei*ed the more convenient. 



Pam. COETLOPHID^. 

 Genus Ph^NOCEPHALUS, nov. gen. 



Corpus rotundato-ovale, supra convexum, subtus deplanatum, calvum, politiim, 

 fere csculpturatum ; prothoraco transverso, postice elytrorum latitudine, angulis 



