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Fam. CUCUJID^. 



Genus CrYPTAMOEPHA. 



WoUaston, Ins. Mad., 156 (1854). 



Cetptamoepha fasciata, n. sp. 



C. angustula, suh-linearis, suh-depressa, puhescens, ca/pite prothoraceque (.sa< 

 grosse ptmctatis) rufo-ferrugineis, sed elytris (^striato-punctatis) rufo-testaceis in 

 fii.scid media, transversd necnon ad apicem nigrescentihus ; prothorace elongato- 

 subquadrato, postice gradatim pauln angustiore, angulis via productis sed ad latera 

 crenato, basi trisinuato et anguste viarginato ; antennis rufo-ferrugineis, subtri- 

 articulato-clavatis ; pedibus rufo-testaceis. Long. corp. lin. 1. 



I feel almost certain that the unique specimen from wliicli the 

 above diagnosis lias been compiled, and wbicb would appear to have 

 been taken by Mr. Lewis in suffar (and therefore, perhaps, to have 

 been imported into Japan), must be looked upon as a comparatively 

 minute member of my genus Cryptamorplia ; for, although the antenna) 

 are less gradually thickened towards their apex (the last tliree joints 

 forming a kind of loose, ill-defined club, as in many of the Silvani), 

 all the other details, so far as I am able to inspect them, seem to be 

 in accordance with those of the Cryptamorplia musce, which infests 

 the Banana-stems in the Madeiran Archipelago, and which was found 

 also by Mr. Melliss at St. Helena. Thus, not only are its outline 

 and the laterally crenulated edges of its prothorax almost identical 

 with those of Cryptamorplia, but likewise the fusiform termination of 

 its maxillary palpi and the pentamerous structure of its feet (with 

 their minute fourth joint) are on the exact pattern which obtains in 

 that group, and essentially distinct from the corresponding ones of 

 JPsammoechus. And, moreover, in addition to all this, its very system 

 of coloration is that of the C. miisce, — the entire surface being of a 

 clear rufo-ferruginous, with a darker transverse fascia across the 

 central region of the elytra. 



Fam. CEYPTOPHAGIDiE. 

 Genus LeuCOHIMATIUM, Eosenhaucr,Die Thiere Andalu8.,l79(185G). 

 There is a single example amongst Mr. Lewis's Japanese Coleop- 

 tera which I feel sure is a Leucohimatium ; for, although its rufo- 

 ferruginous hue and general aspect arc quite those, at first sight, of a 

 minute Sihanus, nevertheless, the simple (instead of bilobed) third 

 joint of its feet, in conjunction with its rather shorter antenna; and 

 thickly margined, posteriorly produced prothorax (the anterior angles 

 of which are rounded off, and the sides minutely crenulated), shew it 

 to belong to the former of those groups, rather than to the latter. 



