7.'. 



from all other species in the deeply punctured surface, and peculiar form 

 of its body. 



Habitat, Asia Pound not uncommonly in Japan by Mr. Lewis. 



1 am much inclini d to ri gard thi -pecies as a local race of T. variolosa ; but 

 have thought it safer to separate them on account of the great and persistent 

 difference in size ami form which exists between Mr. Lewis's captures and the 

 European species. 



Gen. XV.— PTILIODES. LV XIII. I;. 



Ptiliodes, Matthews, Cist. Ent. iii. p. 10, 1882. 



< 'orpus subol . sat convexum. 



Caput magnum, latum, prominens ; parte gulari magna, valde convexa ; oculi sat 



magni, prominentes ; antennae sat longe ante oculos inserts. 

 Antenna (PL XIII. J!, fig. 7) breves, robustae, 11-articulatae ; 1 magno, obconico ; 



2 primo minori, ovato, apice abrupte truncato ; :'> gracili, sublineari : 1 et 5 

 tertio fere similibus ; 6— 8-ovatis, Bibiipsis fere paribus; 9 precedent] consimili 

 sed majori ; 10 uono multum majori, subrotundato, incrassato ; 11 obi 

 conico, decimo longiori, pariter crasso ; duobus ultimis clavam moniliformem 

 formantibus, atqu perbrevibus verticillatis instructis. 



1 'art** oris hand examinatse. 



Pronotum breve, transversum, ad basim leviter coutractum, angulis posterioribus 



hand productis. 

 ScuteUum sat parvum, triangulare. 

 Elytra oblonga, truncata. 

 AUr lanceolate, sub elytris vi 

 Abdomen longius exsertum, sat obtusum, segmentis quatuor apertis, apicali obtuso, 



integro ; alioqui non examinatum. 

 Protkoraa (PL XIII. B, tit,'. '2, a) prosterno magno; episternU parvis, conspicuis; 

 epimeris modicis, coxarum receptacula cingentibus; c 'arum receptaeulis mag- 

 nis, o vat is, obliquis, contingentibus. 

 Pectus (PL XIII. B, fig. 2, d) modico, breviter carinato ; episternis 



modicis, oblongis ; epimeris magnis, humeralibus, ad receptacula coxarum late 



lis rotundatis, contingentib 

 metasterno (PL XIII. B, fig. 2, abquadrato, ad latera j extenso, 



marline posteriori inter ■ eta; episternis atque epimeris Bub elytris totis 



occultis. 

 Venter Begmentis Bex compositus, omnibus pariter long ili leviter emarginato. 



Pi I I b] i robusti, anti anteribue parvis, trigonalibus ; fi moribus 



simplicibuB ; tibiis parum dil vibus, triarticulati . I il Ion 



2 primo multum minori ; 8 elongato, gracillimo; unguibus gracilibus, Leviter 

 curva 

 intermedii anticia Bimiles, Bed parum longiores. 



postici (PL XIII. 3) trochanteribus claviformibus, alioqui anticia similes, 



sed tibiis magis dilatat i ~. 



<res magna?, ovataa, contingentes. 

 intermedia rotundatsB, contingentes. 



it magna, prominentes, ovahter et late, per totam longitadinem I imi- 

 natae, modicc rt-niohe. 



Body suboblong, rather convex. 



Head large and broad, prominent, gular region large and very convex ; eyes large 



and prominent ; antenna' inserted considerably in front of tl 

 Antenna PL XIII. B, lig. 7) short and robust, 11-jointed: 1 large, obconic ; 2 



smaller than the first, ovate, with the apex abruptly truncate; 8-5 slender, 



l 2 



