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IV. The Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of Japan. Part III. 
Scolytide. By Watter F. H. Branprorp, M.A., 
EZ.s: 
[Read Dec. 6th, 1893.] 
The Rhynchophora collected by Mr. George Lewis in 
the Japanese Archipelago during the years 1880 and 
1881 have been described in part by Dr. Sharp in the 
‘Transactions’ of this Society for 1889 and 1891. In 
this paper I deal with the Scolytide of that collection, 
four species of which I have already described in my 
paper on the Scolyto-platypini. 
To the present time our knowledge of Japanese 
Scolytids rests upon the materials brought together by 
Mr. Lewis up to 1872, before which date but one species, 
Genyocerus adustipennis, Motsch., was known as Japanese. 
Nothing resembling that insect exists in this collection, 
and I have nothing to say about it. The species of the 
earlier collection were submitted, the Yomicini to 
Hichhoff, the remainder to Chapuis, and the results are 
given in the ‘ Annales de la Société entomologique de 
Belgique,’ 1874, pp. 195—203, in a paper entitled 
“ Scolytides recueillis an Japon par M. G. Lewis.” They 
distinguished 18 species, of which one occurred also in 
Kurope; the rest were new. In 1878 Hichhoff in his 
“ Ratio Tomicinorum ” added six species (one Huropean), 
and fully described those he had previously diagnosed. 
Nothing else has been written on the subject, and I 
have not found it necessary to redescribe the species of 
Chapuis and WHichhoff, and have merely indicated 
localities, etc., and some points of distinction between 
them and new species. ‘The original descriptions, and in 
the case of TVomicini the later ones of Hichhoff, are 
sufficient to identify them by. ; 
The number of species known to exist in Japan before 
my examination of this collection was 25; I raise it to 
104 by the addition of 79 species, of which 71 are new. 
TRANS. ENT, SOC. LOND, 1894.—PART I. (MARCH.) 
