86 Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford on the 
differs in colour, and the sculpture of the elytra, which 
have large dilated punctures and subcostate interstices, 
so that they appear reticulate. There is in Mr. Lewis’s 
Ceylon collection a specimen which corresponds in every 
respect to Hichhoff’s description of C. monilicollis, and 
is almost certainly that insect. In the Japanese collec- 
tion is a specimen which agrees with it in generic 
characters, but is much more closely allied in appear- 
ance to Hypothenemus, showing the near relationship 
between the genera, which are, however, sufficiently 
distinct. 
Cosmoderes consobrinus, sp. u. 
Oblongus, subcylindricus, opacus, niger, elytris nigro-piceis, 
antennarum scapo tarsisque testaceis ; prothorace aeque longo quam 
lato versus apicem subangustato, apice rotundato, bituberculato, 
disco gibboso, anterius exasperato, posterius scabrose granulato ; 
elytris prothorace duplo longioribus, seriatim pilosis et striatis, 
striis leniter impressis, vix perspicue punctatis, interstitiis alutaceis 
uniseriatim squamosis. Long. 2 mm. 
One example, without locality. 
Oblong, rather elongate, cylindrical, black, with elytra obscurely 
piceous. Head finely reticulate, front convex, finely and sparingly 
punctured, and very shortly pubescent, eyes oval emarginate ; 
antenne testaceous with club infuscate, short oval, pubescent with 
a smooth patch at base, without evident sutures. Prothorax as 
broad as long, contracted at sides towards apex, base truncate not 
margined, basal angles obtuse, sides slightly rounded behind, sub- 
sinuate and more rounded anteriorly, apical margin strongly 
rounded with two prominent median tubercles ; surface convex 
and gibbous in middle, obliquely impressed on either side behind 
median elevation, in front strongly declivous and rather finely 
asperate, base and interstices dull, covered with fine scabrous pro- 
jections, pubescence very short. Scutellum distinct, triangular. 
Elytra a little wider than base of prothorax and double as long, 
base truncate, humeral angles rounded rectangular, shoulders 
rather prominently elevated, sides subparallel, obliquely rounded 
at apex ; surface subcylindrical, very obliquely declivous towards 
apex, its texture coriaceous, with shallow impressed striz, with 
barely distinguishable punctures and rows of minute hairs, inter- 
stices alutaceous, subconvex, with a single series of erect narrow 
