Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of Japan. 77 
Scotytus, Geoff. 
One species has been described by Chapuis. I add 
five more, and there is possibly one other. They present 
the uniformity in appearance characteristic of this widely 
distributed genus. ‘The species were principally obtained 
from birch. 
TABLE OF SPECIES. 
1. Second abdominal segment unarmed . . . ...... 2 
with a median process . . claviger. 
2. Abdomen concave, its Srd and 4th segments with a tubercle 
onapicalmargin . . . ce ee 
not concave, 3rd and 4th eeamene simple 24 4 8 
3. Apex of elytra finely serrate near suture (size 44 mm.) . agnatus. 
SITE Oira/ Moa 7. ara eegets eee epee Mee ee 
4, Alternate interstices of elytra with an preatilan double row 
OL Punehures, 6 fh) Soa)  fnontalis: 
All interstices with a single row of punctures. . . . . . 5 
5. Elytra brown, strongly punctured inrows . . . . . aratus. 
black, finely punctured, with oblique aciculate 
scratches tee ed ee kts) a SAPONICUa OL: 
Scolytus esuriens, sp. n. 
Nitidus, niger, elytrorum lateribus et apice nonnunquam 
rufescentibus, antennis pedibusque ferrugineo-piceis ; prothorace 
longitudine vix latiore, punctato, linea media levi; elytris 
lateribus subrotundatis posterius vix angustatis, apice conjunc- 
tim subtruncatis, fortiter striato-punctatis, striis impressis, 
interstitiis planis subtiliter uniseriatim, 30 saltem_biseriatim, 
punctatis ; abdomine concavo, segmento lo margine prominulo, 
3o et 4o in margine medio tuberculo parvo ornatis. Long. 
38—5°5 mm. 
Mas. Fronte deplanata breviter pilosa. 
Fem. Fronte subconvexa parcissime pilosa, vertice subnitido, 
discrete punctato, Long. 3°8—5:'5 mm. 
Several specimens taken at Junsai, and single 
examples at Miyanoshita and Chiuzenji. 
Nearly allied to S. geoffroyi, Goetze. 
Black with sides and apex of elytra more or less reddish. 
Front of head flattened in male and not impressed, with short 
pubescence, subconvex in female, impressed over mouth, and 
thinly hairy ; vertex in female convex, with a median impressed 
line shining and diffusely punctured. Prothorax with a shallow 
impression on either side, more strongly punctured than in 
