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Habitat, Asia. A single example found in Ceylon by Mr. Lewis. 



Obs. — Since the foregoing description was made, other specimens have been found 



without the strigose sculpture on the sides of the thorax, which must, 



therefore, be regarded as accidental. 



Lewisium Japonicum, sp. n. 



L. c. j^ lin. = 1*12 mm. — Subhemisphericum, nitidum, profunde punctatum 

 et alutaceum, rufo-castaneum ; pronoto magno, rufescenti, antice circulariter 

 rotundato, reflexo, et fiavo-marginato, minutissime sed regulariter punctato, 

 interstitiis alutaceis, margine basali fere recta, angulis productis, acutis ; elt/tria 

 rufo-castaneis vel piceis, pronoto sesqui longioribus, baud latioribus, ad humeros 

 latissimis, confertim et sat profunde punctatis, interstitiis alutaceis, lateribus 

 late marginatis, apice obtuso ; pedibus brevibus, valde dilatatis, Ifete flavis ; 

 antennis longis, flavis. 



Body subhemispheric, shining, alutaceous, with the elytra deeply punctured, rufo- 

 castaneous. 



[lead large, rufescent ; ej'es black, large and prominent ; antennse long, yellow. 



Thorax large, rufescent, circularly rounded, and retiexed in front, with the margin 

 yellow, very minutely but regularly punctured, with the interstices alutaceous, 

 basal margin sinuated, with the angles produced and acute. 



SciiteUum small, subtriangular, alutaceous. 



Elytra rufo-castaneous or piceous, one-half longer but not broader than the thorax, 

 widest at the shoulders, closely and rather deeply punctured, with the inter- 

 stices alutaceous, sides broadly margined, apex obtuse. 



Legs short and strong, bright yellow, with the anterior tibiae compressed and broadly 

 dilated at the apex, armed on the outer side with two strong teeth ; interme- 

 diate setose and broadly dilated at the middle ; posterior setose and dilated 

 towards the apex. 



Under parts piceous, head and prothorax rufescent, metasternum and first ventral 

 segment deeply alutaceous. 



Differs from L. Ceylonicum in its much larger thorax, alutaceous surface, and cas- 

 taneous colour. 



Habitat, Asia. Found in Japan by Mr. Lewis. 



CATOPTYX. Pl. VI., B. 

 Catoptyx, Matthews, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 111. 



Corpus subhemisphericum, antice circulariter rotundatum, postice parum acumi- 

 natum. 



Caput modicum, sub pronoto totum occultum, ore defiexo, elongato, valde acumi- 

 nato, parte gulari brevi ; oculis sat parvis, prominentibus ; antennis justa 

 oculos insertis. 



Antenna (PI. VL, B, fig. 7) 11-articulatfe ; 1 permagno, pyriformi, fortiter recurvato, 

 facie externa valde deplanata ; 2 sat parvo, fere ovali ; 3-6 minutis, sibiipsis 

 paribus ; 7 interne valde incrassato, quatuor prsecedentibus longitudine sequali ; 

 8 parvo ; 9-11 magnis, valde incrassatis, clavam foliatam formantibus, apicali 

 cpeteris longiori, ovato. 



Paljji maxillares (PI. VL, B, fig. 5, w) permagui, 4-articulati ; 1 parvo, subtriangu- 

 lari ; 2 permagno, incurvato, valde incrassato, subpyriformi ; 3 brevissimo, 

 transverso ; 4 truncato-conico, tertio graciliori et parum longiori, setis bre- 

 vibus instructo. 



Palpi labiales (PI. VL, B, fig. 6, m) sat magni, triarticulari ; 1 exiguo ; 2 permagno, 



