Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of Japan. 69 
There are seven Japanese species, of which five 
are new. 
TABLE OF SPECIES. 
1. Head with a median carina immediately over mouth . . . 2 
notcarinate overmouth . . . : 5) 
2. Elytra closely covered with scales, muteraticgs altaenntely lighter 
anddarker . . 3 
thinly covered with hairs or scales, unicolorous . . 4 
3. Prothorax abruptly contracted in front, reddish-brown 
pulchellus. 
gradually contracted in front, black . . . dubius. 
4, Elytra black, interstices similar, sizesmall . . . . minutus. 
red-brown, 2nd interstice depressed and narrowed at apex 
perlatus, Ch. 
5. Interstices without seriate bristles, Ist and 35rd tuberculate 
towards apex. . rudis. 
uniformly granulate, with seriate bristles. . . 6 
Bristles on 2nd interstice ceasing before apex, front subcarinate 
between eyes. . serzatus. 
on interstices, similar throughout. . . . lewis, Ch. 
i=z) 
Phieosinus pulchellus, sp. u. 
Ovalis, rufo-testaceus, antennis pedibusque ferrugineis ; capite 
nigro, punctulato, breviter piloso, vix rostrato, supra os fortiter 
carinato ; prothorace transverso, antice abrupte contracto, supra 
convexo, linea media subelevata, rugose punctato et squamis 
adpressis haud dense vestito ; elytris post medium subdilatatis, 
fortiter striato-punctatis, interstitiis planis, 20, 40, 60 muticis, 
squamis brunneis, ceteris versus apicem subtuberculatis, squamis 
flavo-testaceis vestitis. Long. 2°5 mm. 
One specimen, Wada Toge. 
Oval, convex, red-brown, elytra closely squamose with alternate 
lighter and darker stripes. Head impressed over mouth (probably 
a male character) with a strong frontal carina, punctured, 
and shortly hairy. Prothorax nearly one-half broader than long, 
strongly narrowed in front, sides behind nearly straight, then very 
convex at contraction, becoming straighter in front ; base narrowly 
impressed, surface convex, slightly depressed at apex, and obscurely 
elevated in middle from base to apical depression, densely punc- 
tured and sprinkled with close-lying yellow scales. Elytra wider than 
prothorax and twice as long; basal margin crenate, everted at sides, 
humeral prominences obliterated sides subsinuate to beyond 
