106 Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford on the 
about middle, interstices with an irregular series, usually double, 
of finer setigerous punctures, apical declivity convex, strong but 
not abrupt, not acutely carinate below, impressed on either side of 
suture and margined by the elevated and finely tuberculate 3rd 
interstice, 2nd interstice with a short obtuse spine at upper angle 
of declivity, hairs long, especially towards apex. 
Not unlike X. atratus, Hichh., but distinguished by 
the prothorax being finely punctured behind, the elytral 
interstices being biseriately punctured, and the tubercle 
on the third. Separable by the structure of the pro- 
thorax from Dryocetes pilosus and affinis. 
Xyleborus atratus, Kichh. 
Hichh., Scol. Jap., p. 201; Rat. Tom., p. 324. 
A few more specimens taken at Kiga and Nagasaki. 
AXyleborus germanus, sp. n. 
Fem. Breviter cylindrica, nitida, picea, antennis pedibusque 
testaceis ; prothorace subgloboso, convexo, indistincte transverse 
elevato, anterius exasperato, posterius subtiliter punctulato, margine 
basali medio piloso ; elytris prothorace sesqui fere longioribus, ad 
apicem oblique declivibus et infra carinatis, subtiliter striato- 
punctatis, interstitiis rarius uniseriatim punctatis in declivitate 
seriatim pilosis. Long. 2—2'3 mm. 
Apparently common; sixteen specimens altogether 
have been taken at various places, two or three at most 
from each. 
Oyayama, Nikko, Subashiri, Kiga, Miyanoshita. 
Short, cylindrical, piceous, shining. Head finely reticulate, with 
front convex, scantily punctured, mouth ciliate ; eyes flat, oblong, 
deeply emarginate. Prothorax as long as broad, base truncate, 
basal angles rounded, sides scarcely rounded behind, broadly in 
front; surface convex with an obtuse median transverse elevation, 
anteriorly with concentric rows of exasperations, strong over apex, 
posteriorly shining with scattered fine punctures, pubescence short 
and sparse, except at apex and in middle of basal margin. 
Scutellum large, subtriangular, shining. Elytra as wide as thorax, 
and nearly twice as long ; humeral angles obtusely rounded, sides 
subparallel to apex, which is abruptly and broadly rounded and 
carinate below; surface convex, somewhat rounded from base to 
middle, then obliquely but not abruptly declivous, piceous-brown, 
