Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of Japan. 135 
ad apicem, 30 et 50 etiam ad basim granulatis, depressione postica 
parva, subtriangulari, granulata. 
Fem. Fronte antice subconcava, opaca, prothoracis sulco con- 
gerie punctorum minore ovali circumdato, interstitiis lo et 20 in 
summa declivitate in spinam communem magnam, 3o, 50, To in 
spinulas parvas productis, declivitate utrinque tuberculata, angulis 
externis in lobos subquadratos productis, abdominis segmento 
40 bispinato. 
Five specimens, Miyanoshita, Kiga, and Yuyama. 
Elongate, ferruginous, or inclining to pitchy. 
Mate with front of head flat, dull with very fine cross reticula- 
tion, punctures rather fine, longitudinally strigose towards mouth. 
Prothorax oblong, diffusely punctured, rather closer at extreme sides, 
with a porelike puncture within anterior angle of emargination 
and a broad cordate group of small uniform punctures round 
median sulcus. Elytra sulcate, the sulci with irregular confluent 
punctures, not widened behind and obliterated before apical 
impression ; interstices convex, shining, with fine scattered oblong 
punctures, lst narrow throughout, bases of 2nd and 4th abbreviated, 
impressed and more strongly punctured, the latter with two or 
three longitudinal asperities, bases of 3rd and 5th elevated with 
transverse granulations ; apical extremity with interstices dull, 
granulate, and pilose, terminal impression subtriangular, closely 
granulate, with erect hairs, suture shining. Underside reddish 
testaceous, abdomen unarmed. 
FEMALE with head similar to male in sculpture, front impressed 
over mouth and subconvex behind. Prothorax oblong, slightly 
impressed in middle of either side, sulcus surrounded with an oval 
patch of punctuation narrower than in male, rest of punctures 
scattered and rather fine, except along lateral border. Elytra sulcate, 
the sulci wider behind with punctures confluent, interstices convex, 
shining, with fine scattered oblong punctures, the ist narrow 
throughout, base of 3rd enlarged, more closely punctured, bases of 
2nd and 4th impressed, punctured, and asperate as in male, two first 
with a large common spine, 3rd, 5th, and 7th with small spines 
at summit of apical declivity, the rest unarmed ; declivity convex 
with the sulci continued on it, and the interstices finely asperate, 
the third terminating at a stout tubercle, external angles produced 
backwards into a vertical sabquadrate lobe, with its posterior edge 
concave, so as to form two blunt teeth atangles. Fourth abdominal 
segment armed with two spines, the fifth flattened. 
