Rhynchopharous Coleoptera of Japan. 0) 
Voveolrypea perditor, ap. 1, 
Ovalia, subnitidus, forruginous, pilosa; prothoraee hand trans. 
vordo, adapicom subanguatato, margine antico tuboreulato, anterius 
tuberculia concentricia vix transversia, postertus longibudinalibus 
ornato 5; elytria lineatoepunetatia, punetin solin adpromsin, inter. 
alitiin dotin longioribus oreelia ornatia, Long, IS mm, 
ive specimens, in the neighbourhood of Nagasalt, 
Oval, convex, lighter or darker forruginousbrown 5 head 
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punctured, with rather long puboseence ab sides and over mouth 5 
front clovated al sides and imprewed ino middle, with w fine 
modian raived ting, Prothorax searcely broader than long, semi« 
olliptical, narrowed towards apex, and not evidently contracted 
it base, which is truneate, with the posterior angles nearly 
roctangular, sides feobly rounded to middle, thence gradually 
more strongly and #ubsinuste to apex, the margin of which is 
cronate, wilh a series of fine tuberclos; surface rather strongly and 
uniformly convex, moderately shining, with seatterod amall 
weporations forming indistinet concontrie lines in front and longi 
tudinal clovations over the base, Seutellam wmall, punetiforn, 
piccous, Elytra a little wider than bawe of prothorax and one- 
fourth longer, truncate ab base with humeral angles rectangular, 
widow subparallol and straight for basal third, then gradually 
rounded to apex ; above convex, and rounded from base to apox 
with rows of shallow setigerous punctures, their soto short, 
intorvuticos narrow and flat, with a single #erion of loss frequent 
fing aciculations bearing long orect eto, Logs forruginous or 
toulaceous, 
Wasily distinguished from C, granicepa by ita much 
amallor size, and the absence of an apical impression on 
the elytra, Allied to CO. pygmens, Wichh., and, therefore, 
to OU, integer, Wichh,, from Siam, which latter [have 
not seen, Shorter and more ovate than CL pygmeua ; 
the thorax rounder at the sides, and more convex, 
more shining, with far fower asperitios, Mlytra less 
than one-sixth longer than broad (in CO. pygqmceus they 
are wm least one-third longer, and appear comparatively 
eylindrical) ; their strim more distinctly and sparsely 
punctured, and wider apart, the interspaces with fower 
and amallor setiverous tuberclos; stria continued on to 
the apex and not obliterated, as in OC, integer, 
