64 CUKCULIONID.i;. 



without aii}^ scaling on their internal surface ; the tarsi with the 

 third joint evidently broader than the second, the claws free. 



liange. Kashmir, Turkestan and Japan. 



Roeloffs placed this genus in the Brachyderides, but his type 

 species, from Japan, has well developed postocular vibrissse, and 

 should undoubtedly be referred to the Tanymecides, in the 

 vicinity of Tlujlacites, to which it is closely allied. The latter 

 genus differs iu having the base of the elytron gradually sloping 

 to its edge, instead of being sharply niarginate ; the nietasternum 

 is evidently longer than the median coxte ; the corbels of the 

 posterior tibise are covered with scaling internally, and the third 

 joint of the posterior tarsi is scarcely broader than the second. 

 The two species of Thi/lacitfs described by Faust from Kashmir 

 should, I consider, be referred to the present genus, which has 

 hitherto been regarded as peculiar to Japan. 



Kei/ to iJie Species. 



1 (6) Rostrum without a transverse im- 



pressed line before the eye. 



2 (5) Prothorax with a central farrow. 



8 (4) Elytra truncate at the base and 

 broader than the prothorax, broadest 

 at or before the middle Jioxius, Fst., p. 64. 



4 (3) Elytra jointly sinuate at the base, 



broadest far behind the middle. . . . nuhifer, Est., p. 65. 



5 (2) Prothorax without a central furrow . ccssius, sp. n., p. 65. 



6 (1) Rostrum with a transverse impressed 



line in front of the eye kashmirensis, sp. n., p. 65. 



27. Scepticus noxhis, Fst. 



Thylacites no.vius, Faust,* Stett. Eut. Zeit. 1886, p. 130. 



Colour black, wxih. uniforui grey scaling. 



Head with scattered puuctation, the rostral furrow encroaching 

 only on the anterior part of the forehead, llostrum dilated at 

 tlie apex, plane above, rugosely punctate and with a deep central 

 furrow in the basal half. Prothorax a little broader than long, 

 the sides subparallel near the base, slightly rounded in front, 

 broadest before the middle, the apex scarcely narrower than the 

 base, with coarse scattered punctures above, except along the 

 anterior margin, and with a deep central furrow which does not 

 reach the apex. Eh/tra broadly ovate, broadest at or before the 

 middle, witli shallow but distinctly punctured stria3, the intervals 

 broad and almost plane, the setae fine, very short andsubdepressed 

 on the disk, longer and more prominent on the declivity. 



Length, 5-5| mm. ; breadth, 2|-2| mm. 



Kashmir : Sirikol (StoliczJca). Turkestan. 



Tif2'>e in the Dresden Museum. 



