62 Mr. Walter I’. H. Blandford on the 
genus may be placed at present in the Hylesini, near 
Dendrosinus, which resembles it in shape, and in the 
structure of the antennal club. ‘The peculiarities of the 
underside are due to its globose form, and consequent 
compression. ‘The elytra are separately curved at base, 
but are not elevated above the base of the prothorax. 
Spheerotrypes pila, sp. n. 
Brevissime ovatus, fere globosus, niger, elytris piceis, antennis 
tarsisque ferrugineis; capite supra os transverse impresso, 
reticulato punctato, fronte pilosa; prothorace valde transverso, 
anterius fortiter angustato, basi postice obtuse producta, sub- 
tilissime marginata, supra post apicem transverse impresso, dense 
punctato, subnitido, parcius squamoso, linea media elevata laevi : 
elytris striato-punctatis, punctis obsoletis, interstitiis planis, 
squamatis, squamis pro maxima parte fuscis, interdum praecipue 
versus apicem cinereis. Long. 2-4—3 mm. 
Hitoyoshi, several examples; it has occurred in the 
thin bark of a camellia. 
Very short oval, exceedingly convex. Head with front 
flat in female, impressed in male, punctured, and thinly hairy, 
the hairs ascending on to middle of vertex, which is smooth 
at the sides, finely reticulate and scantily punctured. Prothorax 
nearly double as wide as long, its base bordered and produced 
backwards to form an obtuse angle, and slightly concave on either 
side, basal angles acute, sides rounded and strongly narrowed from 
base to apex; dorsum separated throughout from flanks by a fine 
ridge, convex, transversely impressed behind apex, with close rugose 
punctuation and a narrow elevated line from base to middle, some- 
what shining with a scanty covering of scales, chiefly at apex and 
on sides, its anterior border fringed with short hairs. Scutellum 
oblong, rugose. Elytra rather wider than prothorax and _ less 
than twice as long, conjointly emarginate at base, basal borders 
slightly rounded, crenate, not overlapping base of thorax, basal 
angles very broadly rounded, sides rounded from base to apex; 
above dull brown covered with fuscous scales and with a dusty 
appearance, due to scattered cinereous scales; striate, the strix 
rather deep, with obsolete and scattered punctures, interstices quite 
flat, rugose, more strongly at base. Underside black, punctured. 
thinly covered with scales. Legs blackish with tarsi lighter. 
[The following species, though not from Japan, is so 
closely allied that it may well be described here: 
