74 Rhytichophorous Coleoptera of Japan. 



the species I have examined, viz., A. politus, A. maculi- 

 pennis, A. puhescens, and A. uniformis, the prosternal 

 epimera do not meet behind, whereas in Aidetes they do. 

 I do not understand for what reason the author, when 

 estabUshing the genus, placed A. hasilaris in it, as it 

 does not agree with the characters he ascribed to Aule- 

 tohius. 



Auletohiiis uniformis. 



Aidetes uniformis, Koelofs, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., xvii., 

 p. 152. 





