Uiidvserihcd Cossonidcc. 201 



Habitat No vain Zealandiam, a Dom. Sharp ad descri- 

 bendum beiiigne commuiiicatus. 



In honorem Dom. Broun, scientise naturalis in Nova 

 Zealandia investigatoris, hanc specieni inter Cossonidas 

 valde distinctam nuncupavi. 



GENUS TYCHIODES. 



Wollaston, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lo7id.,l6 (1873). 



Tychiodes Jansoiii, n. sj'). 



S. elliptico-oblongus, depressus, nitidus, piceo-niger : 

 capite parvo, inter oculos parce punctato et ibidem minute 

 foveolato ; rostro elongato, gracillimo, parallelo, cylindrico, 

 jiolitissimo, fere impunctato (punctulis minutis solum 

 parce irrorato) ; prothorace transverso, subrotundato- 

 triangulari, parce sed distincte punctato, sequali (aut 

 postice in medio obsolete transversim impresso) ; elytris 

 parallelo-oblongis basi recte truncatis, grosse punctato- 

 (aut fere crenato-) sulcatis, interstitiis postice et versus 

 latera convexis ac parce minutissimeque subseriatim 

 punctulatis ; antennis (gracilibus, longe pone medium 

 rostri insertis) tarsisque clare rufo-ferrugineis, femoribus 

 tibiisque robustis rufo-piceis. Subtus parce et sat minute 

 punctulatus. 



Long. corp. lin. 2. 



Habitat ins. Philippine, a Dom. E. W. Janson com- 

 municatus, cujus in honorem nomen triviale dedi. 



Obs. — ^Species T. Adamsi, insularum Japonicarum, valde 

 affinis ; sed differt corpore paululum majore, depressiore, 

 vix magis parallelo, et conspicue obscuriore (sc. fere nigro) ; 

 rostro vix longiore, ac sensim minute punctulato (nee 

 omnino esculpturato) ; prothorace fere requali, solum 

 postice in medio obsolete transversim impresso ; scutel- 

 loque submajore et magis pentagono. 



Three examples of a Pentarthrid, which have been com- 

 municated to me by Mr. Janson as having come from the 

 Philippine Archipelago, are most intimately related to the 

 Ti/chiodcs Adamsi — detected by Dr. A. Adams on the 

 island of Awasima (off the north-west coast of Nipon) in 

 the Jai)anese Group. Nevertheless, although belonging 

 undoubtedly to the same type, I feel sure that it is distinct 



